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Kanishk Tharoor

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Author of Swimmer Among the Stars (FSG), a Guardian and NPR Best Book of the Year / Museum of Lost Objects @bbc / Deputy Editor @foreignaffairs
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Review | A collection of ancient Indian stories given new life

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| The Washington Post Verified
(NYRB) Review by Kanishk Tharoor October 5, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT In the mists of legendary time, an oil merchant dreamed of two gods making love. He admired the “vast coupling” of Siva and Parvati and listened to their cosmic pillow talk, as Siva whispered stories into the divine ear of his consort. When the oil merchant woke, he could not help but turn to his wife and imitate what he had just dreamed, telling her the same stories as they had sex. But that was a mistake.
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Review | A remarkable epic about an Indigenous people near the Arctic Circle

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The Sámi are the Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia, having inhabited the fjords, fenlands, valleys and tundra of this region straddling the Arctic Circle for thousands of years. Their population is small, numbering by official estimates roughly 100,000, spread over several countries. A patina of the exotic clings to them, as they appear even in modern depictions as colorfully dressed reindeer herders, sledding over the icy wastes. Outsiders have long seen them as otherworldly.
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