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Book review: The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle

BURMA CHRONICLES by Guy Delisle. Jonathan Cape Books. Sometimes – most times – I think I live for moments when I stumble across books that are absolute treasures. This graphic novel  which I spied on my daughter`s bookshelf, and because it was about Myanmar nee Burma, I took home to read just blew me away….

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Book review: Doab Dil by Sarnath Banerjee

Of matters this and that A contemplative graphic novel filled to the brim with dil. The cover of Sarnath Banerjee’s  Doab Dil  tells a story of its own, well  before the reader  reaches the part of the book that provides any context for it. The clouds, the woman on top of the rocks with her…

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Book review: Adi Parva by Amruta Patil

This is more a brief take than review. Amruta Patil`s marvellous-marvellous-marvellous ADI PARVA is a book I go back to oftentimes. The thought-provoking text and astonishing artwork in this retelling of the Mahabharata meld so seamlessly, so mellifluously, the reader is richly rewarded over and over again. Here, Indra`s ruby-embellished Indrajaal;     Ganga entering…

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