Kathiravan Annamalai — Excerpt: The Real Thing challenges its audience to figure out what is genuine and real amidst different layers of theatricality and contrasting viewpoints.
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Shome Dasgupta — Excerpt: Gaudry plants a myriad of beings, both on the pages and in the author herself, or rather, authors herself. The readers are just serving as witnesses to it all.
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Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad — Excerpt: Saraswati’s debut collection introduces a distinct sensibility that glides smoothly between the personal and the mythic, giving adequate scale and weight to both dimensions.
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Nina Miller — Excerpt: Dasgupta invites us into his world, introduces us to the food, the scents, the language, the music, and generously lets us linger long past the crickets have gone to sleep.
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Anjana Basu — Excerpt: [The] mix of literary history into the present-day narrative adds charm and layers to the book. One could call it an attempt to revive the interest in Narayan with a younger generation of readers.
