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The Mistress of Spices: A Spellbound Migration Between Memory and Magic

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Book Review: The Mistress of Spices The Mistress of Spices: Between Turmeric and Temptation A review of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s intoxicating novel that simmers with scent, sacrifice, and the surreal. In The Mistress of Spices, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni brews a novel that is less read and more inhaled. It comes to you not in a … Read more

Revisiting the Maharajahs: A Review of False Allies by Manu S. Pillai

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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