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Book review: China Room by Sunjeev Sahota

The consequences of certitudes A moment of misidentification and its dreadful aftermath China Room tells of three young Punjabi girls contracted in marriage to three brothers, all of them controlled by the mother Mai, a woman who does not bother to cloak her iron fist in any kind of velvet glove. The family dynamics between…

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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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