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1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Kushalrani Gulab

   Book Review | A Young Mother’s Horror Story From Afghanistan (opens the original)

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   As a novel, there isn’t much to recommend in City of Widows by Nadia Hashimi. The pace is so slow, it’s almost glacial. The action is found only in the last 100-odd pages of the 400-page plus book. The style of writing is prosaic at best. The protagonist, Marjan, spends most of her time worrying about things rather than doing things. (Justifiably, it’s true — I would be paralysed in her situation. But it creates an unbearably sluggish sense of movement.) In her effort to maintain a sense

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2. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Kushalrani Gulab

   Book Review | When Your Man is Hit by the #MeToo Wave (opens the original)

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   There’s a lot going on in Shuma Raha’s novel, The Sea has the Answers. In Kolkata, the MeToo hashtag attaches itself to a senior advertising professional to the possible detriment of his career and his family. In a small seaside town, the guru of an ashram rapes a local teenager, but because of his strong political connections, nobody expects any kind of justice to be done, not even the filing of an FIR. And in that same town, when a young investigative journalist makes some headway amongst the

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