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Book review: Under Water by Tara Menon

Remembrance of loss  Tara Menon`s debut work is a neat example of tightly controlled story-telling, where as much simmers below the surface as it does, if you will excuse the pun,  above sea level. We watch the protagonist Marissa wandering aimlessly through the streets of downtown NYC on a day of impending disaster, when a…

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Travel: Andamans after the tsunami

  Just ten days before the sea surged over the Andamans, I was holidaying on its white-sanded beaches… Christmas time is when people flock to the Andamans. That is also when the tidal waves hit in 2004, marauding the Andaman and savaging the Nicobar islands. Since D-day which was Christmas day, over 70 tremors have rocked…

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