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It is an epic story, not because of the geographical reach, but because every family story is epic in its own way. It is epic, not because of the backdrop or historical context, or the world around it, but because a family unit can be so far apart yet cross (metaphorical) miles to come back together. That is what makes the book both epic and universal.
“This war has given her a real boost. You can tell by the way she holds herself more upright now, none of the slouching shoulders and moping face…”
for all that you have heard about the explosive economic development in India, Kumar also introduces us to the inevitable social changes that come with that development and its profound impact on a culture that doesn’t quite know how to handle it.
"By the 19th century cholera “was one of the fastest-moving, most feared pathogens in the world,” sickening hundreds of millions."
She is alone and an insomniac who falls asleep listening to the “low murmurings about road traffic accidents of drunken altercations outside Level 2 Nightclub on All Saints Passage, all of which she can safely ignore because they are far too lowly for the Major Incident Team,” on an unauthorized police radio on her bedside table.
