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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is a regular Scroll.in contributor

‘Two and a Half Rivers’: A moving novel of caste discrimination and isolation in Punjab

Anirudh Kala’s book is an account of the caste system, loneliness, and mental health.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
· Apr 02, 2022 · 12:30 pm
This novel brings Burma to readers so authentically that it could have been non-fiction

The political is presented through the personal in Eugene Lawrence’s informative novel from, and of, Burma before it became Myanmar.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
· Mar 01, 2020 · 06:30 pm
This intimate look at the lives of refugees in 1947 resonates with the politics of present-day India

‘Nowhere People’, Sabitri Roy’s Bengali novel from 1972 now translated into English is an important fictional document of the influx into independent India.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
· Nov 02, 2019 · 07:30 am

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