The Family Hotel-Part 3

The Family Hotel-Part 3

Acclaimed author of The Dollmakers’ Island, Anu Kumar brings a treat for the readers of Unboxed Writers in the form of an unpublished novella that will be carried in nine parts. Here is a brief introduction. Three generations of a family have maintained a hotel that suddenly finds itself close to a new boundary line when India and Pakistan are partitioned. And as guests become witness […]

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The Family Hotel-Part 2

The Family Hotel-Part 2

Acclaimed author of The Dollmakers’ Island, Anu Kumar brings a treat for the readers of Unboxed Writers in the form of an unpublished novella that will be carried in nine parts. Here is a brief introduction. Three generations of a family have maintained a hotel that suddenly finds itself close to a new boundary line when India and Pakistan are partitioned. And as guests become witness […]

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The Family Hotel-Part 1

The Family Hotel-Part 1

Acclaimed author of The Dollmakers’ Island, Anu Kumar brings a treat for the readers of Unboxed Writers in the form of an unpublished novella that will be carried in nine parts, starting from this week. Here is a brief introduction. Three generations of a family have maintained a hotel that suddenly finds itself close to a new boundary line when India and Pakistan are partitioned.  […]

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Love And Longing In Goa

Love And Longing In Goa

Victor Rangel-Ribeiro’s Loving Ayesha and Other Stories (Harper Collins India) is a collection that first appeared in 2003, but apart from a couple of stories, that have appeared in magazines, I read this entire collection only just now and this late discovery is a matter of regret as also thrill.   It was the title story, Loving Ayesha I read first. I did […]

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Alone In The City

Alone In The City

Stories of starvation deaths that appear in newspapers usually emerge from severely malnourished, poorer parts of our country, places remote, where the PDS has all but failed. Not from cities. And so the story of the two Bahl sisters  found in a starving, very disturbed state in their Noida home was shocking and also sounded terribly […]

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The Last Meeting

The Last Meeting

He had first seen her long black hair and the way the sun turned it into  gold. She was drying  red chillies on the terrace and he flew over her, lower and then daringly still a bit lower. She looked up, and laughed at him, closing her ears to the roar of his plane.  Then the children rushed out into […]

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A Different Sky

A Different Sky

I begin with a shamefaced confession. I discovered Meira Chand only a few months before I moved to Singapore, and thats when I made up my mind to read A Different Sky. One thing about reading a novel you soon find yourself engrossed in, is that you want to read more about the author. And […]

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