Weekend Reading — December 27, 2015

Today's Weekend Reading stories: M.G.Vassanji writes on East African Asian society and how Indians lived in the multicultural society, a list of books to know the year that was, shelf help and 'the book in my hand.'

December 27, 2015 01:44 am | Updated March 24, 2016 12:13 pm IST

With writing that recalls Jhumpa Lahiri’s, Sandip Roy shows he can evoke individual loneliness and joy better than most others.

Of places called home

East African Asian society was complex and contradictory as any truly multicultural society needs to be, and perhaps as only Indians can make it.

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The year that was, in six books

Seeing off 2015 with recap of conscience calls, mystifying ‘sequels’, bewildering trends, wartime histories and dazzling fiction.

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The book in my hand

I have also started Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind: Navtej Sarna

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Shelf help

The Fall by Albert Camus and The Conspiracy Against The Human Race by Thomas Ligotti.

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