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Book review: Prelude to a Riot by Annie Zaidi

PRELUDE TO A RIOT by Annie Zaidi, Aleph Books.   Zaidi throws out a taut line which the reader grasps, holds on to, and never lets go till the last page is turned.   The book is an elegy — in prose — to communal hatred, to the damage wrought by communal hatred.   This…

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