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Dreamy stillness, with a few scratches

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By Maggie O’Farrell, Kalpish Ratna, Soni Mishra
| Frontline India Verified
Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel Land goes down a treat. I guzzled it with an avidity that bordered on greed. Around that time, I also watched Christopher Nolan’s spectacular Odyssey. Two weeks later, I had forgotten both experiences. I do recall more of the book than the movie now, but the difference is marginal. I was quickly cured of the movie by trawling George Chapman’s translation. My amnesia of the book is harder to explain. Land is rich with promise.
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Private part, public shame

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By Kalpish Ratna, Jayati Ghosh, Vasanth Srinivasan
| Frontline India Verified
On September 8, the newspaper delivered its usual breakfast consignment of crime: theft, digital fraud, sexual harassment, two rapes, and three murders, one of them a parricide. But these were all enfeebled by a crime so heinous that I lost my grip on the day. This wasn’t a crime of bloodshed. Ostensibly, no life was lost. But, in reality, the incident erased half the world’s populace. It was, explicitly, a genocide.
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Mapping Hidden Pasts | Book Review of The Girl from Fergana

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By Jonathan Harris, Kalpish Ratna, Amisha Thakur
| Frontline India Verified
This is a prejudiced review. I needed this book, and thankfully, someone wrote it. Did it answer my need? No. But it did add to my questions and so served the purpose of any book. It turned out that the writer shared my quest, if not my puzzlement. We walked the same road all humans take when we need to understand humanity: the Silk Road. Call it the Silk Roads as the author does, or the Silk Route or the Silk network, we travel it geographically or metaphorically in our search for understanding.
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