In the palaces and paradoxes of colonial India, history sheds its powdered wigs and princely turbans, and dons a human face. In a quiet room lined with books, I first opened Manu S. Pillai’s False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma expecting a stroll through opulent corridors and gilded anecdotes. What I … Read more
Revisiting Draupadi’s Fireborne Voice in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions. In a land where memory often arrives in the form of myth, and myth slips gently into the skin of history, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni dares to ask: what if Draupadi had told her story? Not the story the bards sang beside flickering lamps … Read more
How Divakaruni unfurls a forgotten banner—and why its fabric feels startlingly like our own skin. Dawn in a Room of Rusted Maps “The Last Queen review” must begin, I suppose, with a confession: I first met Rani Jindan Kaur not on a battlefield or a museum label but in a friend’s bookshelf, where my friend … Read more
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