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Book review: Travels in the Other Place by Pallavi Aiyar

There`s travel and then there`s travel….  Pallavi Aiyar`s book has no ambiguity about the subject at hand. A neat meld of memoir and  travelogue, she takes us aboard her personal train, opens the compartment doors to us, tells us of trips into the land of Books, into the barren wastes of Illness, shows us how…

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Book review: Water Days by Sundar Sarukkai

Sundar Sarukkai`s WATER DAYS, Tranquebar Books. The story is set in the 1990s, just when the IT headwinds had begun to blow across Bangalore, turning the Garden City into a `compooter city,` bringing waves of people from across India looking to ride the boom, forever changing the climate, the traffic, the very vibes of a…

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