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Book review: The Last Queen by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Last Queen by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. HarperCollins Books. As someone who has liked everything Divakaruni has written, in varying degrees though, I found this account of Rani Jindan Kaur, the last queen of Punjab, favourite wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh the Lion of Punjab, mother to the last king of Punjab the hapless…

Book review: Koh-i-Noor by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand

This is more excerpts from than review of the book. Romancing this stone! Prosperity, long life, increase of wives and progeny and domestic animals, and the bringing home of a teeming harvest all attend on the use of a diamond well-marked in its points, clear in lustre and divested of bainful traits. …serpents, tigers and…