family saga

Nationhood and Sisterhood

Madhulika Liddle

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s new novel traces freedom through a family saga

The New Family Picture

Mainstream Hindi cinema is slowly moving from a mythical gear to a more novelistic one where the families portrayed are less adarsh and more authentic

One of India’s most powerful politicians is killed by his brother. Son goes on drug orgy, friend dies. Killer brother dies in jail. Now son gets married on reality TV. Here is a family that is stranger than fiction.