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The Home and the World: When Politics Enters Your Marriage
Some books are love stories. Some are political novels. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore is both, and…
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Adultery: When Being Ignored Feels Worse Than Being Wrong
Paulo Coelho writes books where ordinary dissatisfaction becomes spiritual crisis. Where everyday problems get reframed as cosmic questions. Where someone’s…
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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Some novels announce themselves loudly. They grab you by the shoulders and demand your attention with dramatic events and shocking…
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An Artist of the Floating World — Memory, Guilt, and a Vanishing World
Kazuo Ishiguro writes novels where what’s not said matters more than what is. Where memory bends and reshapes itself. Where…
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Valmiki’s Women: Why Anand Neelakantan’s Retelling Matters
We all know the Ramayana. It’s one of those stories that’s been told so many times, in so many ways,…
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The Vegetarian by Han Kang: A Book Full of Symbols, Silence, and Quiet Screams
Most books give you a story with a beginning, middle, and end. They wrap things up nicely. They explain what…
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A Library Visit That Took Me Back to Childhood
We spent a lovely day at the Anna Centenary Library, and I have to say—the children’s section is a total…