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Short Story
English Soup*
Despite the reassuring respect shown by his family's former subjects, there was little that was truly princely left to the Rao Raja--except for the spectacular fare said to be prepared in his kitchen.
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Book Review
New Translation of Ghare Baire
The Tagore translation industry shows no signs of slowing down--new translations of his works can be spotted in increasing numbers by the peripatetic book store browser.
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Book Review
A Cool-Breeze Novel
This is a delightful, hilarious, irreverent novel, a coming-of-age chronicle of one Barun Roy, a 'Bongo' lad from a well-off family (Ma, Papa plus sister Sunam) growing up in Jodhpur Park in the Calcutta
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Book Review
Desperate Housewives!
This is a tale about four white women in India, married to Indians, but very much the outsiders, the memsahibs.
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The Untimely Cuckoo
'Falgun' is long since gone, Tagore's aspiring
'Baishakh' has yielded to 'Jaishtha's' reprimanding eye,
it whimsically
tolls the storm's bell.
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