As a child, I stored precious possessions in an empty Parle Toffees tin box with a picture of a girl with swishing skirts holding a tambourine above her head.
The subtext in Vivek Shanbhag’s work reminds me of the “unsayable” element in the tale of Queen Draupadi, who acquires five husbands in the fourth-century-BCE epic Mahabharata
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay has always possessed a spontaneous, comic bent: in both his adult and children’s fiction, he has captured
For most young girls growing up in India, caste is an unexplained convention handed down by sensible mothers.
Even dogs will now have to decide if they are Indian or Pakistani," observes one of the soldiers in Khalid Hasan's translation
Sometimes I wished human beings were more like flowering trees, ready to adapt anywhere and everywhere at the mere promise of food, sunlight and water. —The Signature, The Knot Wound Round Your Finger (Bell Press)
Sometimes I wished human beings were more like flowering trees, ready to adapt anywhere and everywhere at the mere promise of food, sunlight and water.
—The Signature, The Knot Wound Round Your Finger (Bell Press)
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