This essay is not just about Desai's latest offering, but an assessment of her works. She is someone whom Salman Rushdie calls, "a magnificent writer."
The refugee has always been the subject of jokes. This joke did the rounds during partition and even to this day in Bengal.
During the 1960s and ’70s, Miss Shefali (1947-2020), born Arati Das, was Calcutta’s leading cabaret performer. Originally from Narayanganj in eastern Bengal, she was only
In the preface to No Return Address: Partition and Stories of Displacement, Manjira Majumdar asks pertinent questions—Why was Bengal as a province divided several times
