Among such forgettable figures is Bula.Abused by her husband and expected to put in strenuous housework by his mother, Bula finds solace in books and rare sympathy from this young man in their household, Nikhil, the son of her father-in-law's business partner. As their individual marriages...
then with the outside world slipping in around the edges of his sheltered life. I also found the writing of this book beautiful, especially in the first half, when Tamil is a child. This book may appeal to me as much as it does because I’m very interested...
responds that that the word has been alleged to be offensive “in other Indian dialects.”107 The irony is that the Indian town’s name derives from the Urdu word kharija, meaning “condemned” or “canceled,” because its agricultural revenues had been canceled because its swamplands, unlike...
Ultimately, the overland is an opportunity to immerse in a culture, live for a period in a different way, encounter different ways of thinking and being, different perspectives, that much of this was missed in their journey taints the possibility of this experience having any meaning. I enjoyed...