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Book review: In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne

Meanwhile, migrants elsewhere….. In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne, Hachette India. 2018 release. So,  in a dreary London Council estate,  there lives a set of young people,  Selvon, Yusuf and Ardan, `those with elsewhere in their blood,` whose people have come over from places like the West Indies, Pakistan and Ireland. They…

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Book review: The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota

This is more a brief take than review. The Year Of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota. Picador India I used to pass the British High Commission building in New Delhi on my way to work, twice every day for three years,  and see the long and winding queues, little clumps of stragglers sometimes squatting on…

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