Salman Rushdie remarked once, “We are the only creature on earth that does this unusual thing of telling itself stories in order to try and understand what kind of creature it is.”
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Foreword to the 25th anniversary edition of Amit Chaudhuri’s ‘A Strange and Sublime Address’
‘Sandeep, meanwhile, had come to the conclusion that the grown-ups were mad, each after his or her own fashion. Simple situations were turned into complex dramatic ones; not until then did everybody feel important and happy.’ In Amit Chaudhuri’s A Strange and Sublime Address, Sandeep is a small boy, an only child who lives in […]
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Flood of Fire: An Excerpt
Punctually on Thursday morning, Zachary walked across the lawn, holding in one hand a box of tools and in the other the two books Mrs Burnham had lent him, neatly wrapped in paper. At the door of the mansion, Zachary was met by a veiled, sari-clad maid who led him through a maze of staircases […]
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