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The Lowland

Growing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead of them. It is the 1960s, and Udayan–charismatic and impulsive–finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and…

The Enchantress of Florence

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself ‘Mogor dell’Amore’, the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of…

Books I received last week

Mailbox Mondays: November 26, 2012

Welcome to this week’s Mailbox Monday which is hosted this month by Kathy at Bermuda Onion. Random House India again very kindly sent over a nice set of books. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie has received mixed reviews. Some raved about it, and some long-time Rushdie readers have been disappointed with it. I…

And yet another reason to love Salman Rushdie

It’s an open secret among my blogger buddies that I am a huge fan of Salman Rushdie. Now, after reading this interview with him that took place at the India Today Conclave, I all the more love his brashness and his fierce belief in freedom. Here is one excerpt: Q: At what point of time,…