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Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies Review | Summary

This is the debut short story collection by the author Jhumpa Lahiri. The collection won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The book contains nine short stories – all about the stories of Indians who are abroad and caught in between both the cultures. Most of them deal with the human [...]

Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories – Uma Chakravarthi

Uma Chakravarthi’s Everyday Lives Everyday Histories : Beyond the Kings and Brahmans of Ancient India is a compilation of 14 essays from the authors considerable work on the history and historiography of early India. Though it brings together articles written by historian-activists over two decades, no element of staleness attaches to the book. The books [...]