In this article, Kerry Harwin explores Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Booker-winning novel Heat And Dust and its flawed perception of India.
In this article, Kerry Harwin explores Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Booker-winning novel Heat And Dust and its flawed perception of India.
In his novel One Indian Girl, Chetan Bhagat attempts to write a feminist story but fails at many levels. In this essay, Kerry talks about why this book is a complete misrepresentation of feminism.
Paul Theroux attempted to reveal India to the world by taking a train across the country. V. S. Naipaul narrated his first trip to his ancestral homeland at the age of 29. Kerry’s mother tried to be kind to an old man. All three of them were confounded by preconceptions that they brought along to India.
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