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Book review: Under Water by Tara Menon

Remembrance of loss  Tara Menon`s debut work is a neat example of tightly controlled story-telling, where as much simmers below the surface as it does, if you will excuse the pun,  above sea level. We watch the protagonist Marissa wandering aimlessly through the streets of downtown NYC on a day of impending disaster, when a…

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Book review: Return to Sri Lanka by Razeen Sally

Razeen Sally`s  RETURN TO SRI LANKA was first published in India by Juggernaut Books; this edition is published by Simon and Schuster Books in 2025. Packed with information delivered in the most dispassionate manner as befits an academic, the book is such a good read. The product of a Welsh mother and a Lankan Muslim…

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