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Short Story
Time Out
She felt uncomfortable all over. The touch of the sun overhead made her whole body feel sticky. She loosened the end of her sari and mopped herself.
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Book Review
A Contrapuntal Holocaust tale
Vikram Seth's Two Lives tells the story of Shanti and Henny, his great-uncle and great-aunt, with whom he lived as a newly-arrived student in London.
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BookNote
The Stage Is Yours
It was in Six Seasons Review no. 2, 2001, that Fakrul Alam noted Tori's first book Ava (1998) and wrote that though these are "stories written in adolescence for an adolescent audience," yet "someone who can write with such vividness and economy has a lot of promise.
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BookNote
Skin Deep
A story about two daughters of an interracial marriage during the Raj, Naz and Yasmin, the latter "a spun-sugar fairy, poised for flight," the other the narrator of the story, and as is usually the case
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Dhanmondi Neighbours
"Oh my God! You didn't!"
"You just can't go ahead and.."
"I said that I can't do it if..."
My ears prick up.
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Elegy For My Sari
My aanchal grows
Edgy all on a sudden
The border quivers, flares up but
It's too much to deal with...
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