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Book review: Like Being Alive Twice by Dharini Bhaskar

Love in dark times This inter-religious love story set in a dystopian unnamed nation packs quite a punch. It is an intense exploration of what it means to love in a fractured world. Priyamvada (Poppy) and Tariq are in love. When we meet them, Tariq intends to propose, and Poppy intends to say yes. In…

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Book review: Feeling Kerala, anthology edited by J Devika

Kerala Stories Contemporary really is the keyword here. The short stories in this anthology, translated by feminist historian and social researcher J Devika, deals with some of the issues that Kerala is grappling with today. In her foreword, Devika clarifies that neither were the writers for this collection picked from an exhaustive list nor does…

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