Jainand Gurjar reviews Ruskin Bond’s My India, Longing and Belonging (Publishing by Rupa Publications, 2023) India has celebrated its 77th Independence Day this year, marking
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During the lockdown period, I got into reading autobiographies, as a distraction from my day job of teaching classical texts. While cleaning my bookshelf I
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