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Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta
The writer is in the Indian Administrative Service, and based in Bengaluru
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This is the story, in her own words, of Yashodabai Joshi, married as a girl of six to a boy aged thirteen, and how the couple grew up to par...
Sun, Feb 15, 2004On the Edge of a SecretSubscriber Only
February 01, 2004 00:00 IST
New York-based British columnist and writer Zoe Heller’s second novel was published in the US as What was She Thinking? It appears that...
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Calliope Helen Stephanides is born in January 1960, in Detroit, to a prosperous Greek-American family. Milton and Tessie are so eager to hav...
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November 23, 2003 00:00 IST
Country of Goodbyes, the English translation of Mridula Garg’s Hindi novel Kathgulab, is the story of four women and a man, whose lives...
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Which of us might feel remotely interested in a book called The Burned Children of America? On the other hand, if it is called Zadie Smith I...
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