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Book review: The Blue Women by Anukrti Upadhyay

Compartmentalised lives  Anukrti Upadhyay is back with a fresh cache of short stories that effectively proves her earlier acclaimed work Kintsugi was no flash in the pan. There are a dozen short stories in this volume, all of them imbued with the characteristic quietude we have come to associate with this writer. When things —…

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Book review: Kintsugi by Anukrti Upadhyay

The gleam of a repaired heart Kintsugi  is a collection of six short stories, all the characters linked to each other, some tenuously, some strongly. We meet Haruko, a jewellery apprentice of Japanese-Korean extraction in a jeweller`s lane in Jaipur, after which we go over to Tokyo, then Kyoto,  to meet Meena, Yuri and Hajime….

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