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...Gita had no intention of being a writer — as the wife of a publisher, she felt safely inoculated against that ambition — but at a cocktail party, a guest grabbed her sari, pulled her into his group and said...
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...Among this year’s new titles, some, such as 38-year-old Devika Rege’s Quarterlife, offer a snapshot of a generation and a country in great flux; a few, such as 53-year-old KR Meera’s Assassin, translated...
...or learning a second language....
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