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Sujatha Gidla is a subway conductor in New York with an Indian backstory of caste and isolation, now captured in a critically acclaimed memoir
Ruskin Bond relives his journey from the isolation of childhood to the home he found in the hills
Arundhati Roy’s second novel in twenty years retains her original magic even as it becomes an overwrought political project