~ Amader Shantiniketan, by Shivani ~ Vintage, 2023 This review was first published in Parabaas, and is reproduced here with permission. Shivani’s Amader Shantiniketan is one of those books where the foreword is almost as interesting as the book itself....
Separated sisters “are like a woman and her reflection, doomed to stay on opposite sides of a pond”
Neither white enough nor Arabic enough, though she can pass for either
Conspicuous but invisible
The Color of Me
The Iliad: as retold by women
Skin colour, politics and poverty
Minarets on the Village Green
Politics and social oppression
Evolving Friendships
State of Grace
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