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    ‘The Girl from Fergana’: A compelling narrative of the cross-cultural existence of different peoples

    Mohammad Farhan
    · Apr 18, 2026 · 08:30 am
  • This book is a sister’s tribute to her brother, an army major who died in a road accident at 31

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    Vinod Kotwal
    · Sep 18, 2024 · 01:30 pm
  • From the memoir: A woman recalls how her childhood changed irrevocably after her brother’s suicide

    From the memoir: A woman recalls how her childhood changed irrevocably after her brother’s suicide

    Liana Mistry
    · Sep 07, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • ‘What We Carry’: Maya Shanbhag Lang’s memoir reveals the dark sides of mother-daughter relationships

    ‘What We Carry’: Maya Shanbhag Lang’s memoir reveals the dark sides of mother-daughter relationships

    Avantika Mehta
    · Nov 08, 2020 · 05:30 pm
  • A Norwegian biographer writes movingly of his Goan father, who was largely a stranger to him

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

    Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
    · Jun 01, 2019 · 12:30 pm
  • ‘I want to rock the boat and I know that the boat desperately wants to be rocked’

    ‘I want to rock the boat and I know that the boat desperately wants to be rocked’

    Urvashi Bahuguna
    · Dec 31, 2017 · 07:00 am