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Living in Translation, or Why I Love Daffodils, an Unpopular Postcolonial Flower

For generations, Indians had to learn a poem about a flower most would rarely see.

Aesop’s Fables

These parameters—of living in perennial translation, and accepting that not everything is accessible—were foundational to me as a writer.

Decolonising the Mind Scroll.in,

Things Fall ApartSong of SolomonPride and PrejudiceTales from ShakespeareDotal Hatir Uye Khowa Howdah The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker).

Moth Eaten

The First Promise:

The First Promise

The First Promise

TheNamesake

The Namesake

If you have the questioning mind of a writer, it is hard to like the poem. If you are an anglophile, you would love the flower without ever seeing or touching it.

TheLos Angeles Review of Books

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The Shadow Lines

The Namesake,The Interpreter of Maladies

My entire life is a lie.