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If I was the somewhat unruly Elizabeth Bennet, they were versions of Jane Bennet. If I was Jo in Little Women, they were just as clearly an amalgam of Margaret and Beth. I was doomed by comparison (yet you see how I reserve the role of heroine for myself?).

Tales of childhood, of home labs but also of families and sisters.

“You have neither seen life nor have read good books to know.” So let’s explore the books that inspired Dharamvir Bharati and his epic, because reading books is the best way to explore life in quarantine.

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‘Sire, it is a fine story, constructed according to our traditions, and possessing all the thirteen levels of meaning prized in the greatest of our writings.’
- Tokyo cancelled

Arranged marriages can also be fairy tales

she never stopped thinking of my father as the prince who had, by some miracle, taken her to his heart. She stepped lightly through life, feeling no urge to leave an imprint. My prince-like father, on the other hand, was totally dependent on her quiet strength. In our large joint family with many strange marriages, my parents’ union seemed the most comfortable and joyous.

She wore only sarees: cottons in the day; printed silks for simple shopping excursions, chiffons, georgettes and heavy Benarasi or south Indian silks for evening parties.

Persian couplet, ‘Should the king say that it is night at noon/Be sure to cry, Behold the moon’.

Traveling to Morocco...