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The Scroll.in review of Devi Yesodharan’s novel ‘Empire’: The author’s response
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· Sep 28, 2017 · 07:30 pm
This work of historical fiction about the Chola dynasty is more fiction than history
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· Sep 27, 2017 · 08:30 am
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