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Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

Posted in Amitav Ghosh, Authors, Book reviews, Booker Award Shortlist, Historical Fiction, India, India authors, Indians writing in English, Sea of Poppies, South Asian Writers, South Asian literature, fiction, indian english, literary, novel, tagged on November 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »

To read an Amitav Ghosh novel is not merely to get a glimpse of the best of contemporary Indian writing, but also a snapshot of an oft-ignored episode of history. The “Sea of Poppies” is no exception. After a somewhat lukewarm tryst with Sunderbans and the Gangetic Dolphin (Hungry Tide), the first novel of the [...]

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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Posted in Aravind Adiga, Book reviews, Booker Award Shortlist, India, India authors, Indians writing in English, South Asian Writers, South Asian literature, fiction, indian english, literature, novel on October 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »

What becomes apparent soon into The White Tiger is its anger. This is the voice of the post liberal India, the generation after Rushdie and Mistry. While the principals of Mistry’s Fine Balance are crushed in subhuman surroundings, the one here rises in protest using the very system which keeps countless others like him in [...]

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