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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is a regular Scroll.in contributor

A Norwegian biographer writes movingly of his Goan father, who was largely a stranger to him

In ‘A Stranger At My Table’, Norwegian-Goan author Ivo de Figueiredo applies his biography-writing skills to his own family with striking results.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
· Jun 01, 2019 · 12:30 pm
Kamal Kumar Tanti’s poems present the politics and poignance of being marginalised in a distant land

‘We are told / that historians call us / other people’.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
· Mar 23, 2019 · 08:30 am
A young doctor negotiates love, sexuality and family in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s new novel

In this excerpt from ‘My Father’s Garden’, the unnamed protagonist struggles with his growing feelings of love for a fellow medical student.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
· Jan 07, 2019 · 08:30 am

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