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Matrilineal Hold

Indentured labour, the 1971 War and search for identity are woven in a mother-haunted novel

Jun 12, 2019

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Lord’s Sweet Blows

A school swaddled in sensuality, saffron and rectitude packs an ominous presentiment

May 29, 2019

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The Best In His Line

A well-lit magnetic thespian and his lifelong influence over typecast and rounded others

Apr 03, 2019

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Slippery Barbie Tattoo

Neon-lit, pulpy prose tracks the scapegrace Charlie in his myriad mishaps across Delhi

Feb 20, 2019

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Calcutta In Dark Sci

This one propels the accumulated anxieties of a city into a shape-shifting future vortex

Feb 06, 2019

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Mother’s Not Home

A controlled, subtle tale of how a core of secrecy in a family secretes lasting sadness

Nov 08, 2018

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His Paper Chase

A first-person biography tells of the career of a pioneer Indian editor, but avoids significance

Oct 17, 2018

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Hunting By Her Light

Nur Jahan seduced, intrigued and ruled like few women did. This is a fine tribute, with breaks.

Sep 19, 2018

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On Vermillion Skies

Half a century’s storms buffet lives in south Asia in this simply told, sweeping narrative

Aug 16, 2018

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In Prelapsarian Abandon

Liberal in approach, perorative in tone, Tharoor decries the loss of Hinduism’s ancient openness at the hands of colonials and nationalists old and new

Jul 18, 2018

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The Statue Went Bust

Vidyasagar’s bust perhaps did self-destruct at the current state of affairs!

May 18, 2019

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The Mamata Who Stole Christmas

Walkers around Calcutta's Rabindra Sarovar had grown used to being surprised by music; and from surprise it had become an indulgence. But gradually a note of disharmony crept into the proceedings...

Dec 27, 2016

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Not At My Son's Funeral

Is it possible to do it in cold blood? The Nazis certainly did. But this? Looking into their eyes and asking them their names one by one?

Jul 05, 2016

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The Residue Of Faith

The stink, the uprooted bamboos, the vegetable peels — all that is left behind once the prayers are said and the festival draws to an end

Mar 15, 2016

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Jurassic Park, Kolkata Version

Nothing compares to the noise that Deshapriya Park was generating — an entire cement protima, and huge to boot, the goddess 88 feet tall.

Oct 22, 2015

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The Writer Will Not Dance

The situation between writers and Santhals is actually fairly similar...

Oct 13, 2015

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Inheritance Of Loss

In the corridors of Nabanna the perception is that Kolkata must become London, quite forgetting that the city was actually based on the London model

Sep 22, 2015

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The Extinct Bungalow On Bondel Road

Set as the backdrop to an inane world that was always trying to throw yesterday into the face of now, it was incongruous and it was magnificent.

Aug 03, 2015

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Voters And Other Strangers

The symbolism still gets you — a woman in a white sari with a green border going up against a wall of red promising change.

May 13, 2015

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