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Excess Baggage

Priya Basil scavenges an olla podrida from the literary ragbag. Like love and smell, talent, or a lack of it, can't be hidden.

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Excess Baggage
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Like Water for Chocolate

"Eventually he fell asleep to the lullaby of indigestion gurgled by Sarna’s stomach." There are 400 pages of lines like this. Where have all the editors gone?

When Sarna left Amritsar for Mombasa as a new bride, her mother whispered this warning, "Remember, there are only two things you can’t hide—Ishq and Mushq: Love and Smell." Basil tries, with no success, to mask her ineptitude in verbiage. Like love and smell, talent, or a lack of it, can’t be hidden.

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