And I’ll never leave India …I’ll take India with me wherever I go.”–This quote from my own novel, which I just reread after a long time thanks to The Hindu review which I attach below, is the perfect answer to the convoluted non-issue regarding my identity (as if any Indian can ever run away from the fact of his Indianness!). I had partly forgotten myself in all these years of wandering … lost my way; this novel, more than anything else, reminds me of the real me.
Possibly the most seriously regarded and the preeminent Indian literary review at the time, as well as a respected newspaper, The Hindu (which continued to publish an entire 4-page or 8-page Book Review supplement on weekends even after other newspapers had drastically cut down on their book reviewing) published this review of The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel of Colonialism and Desire. The paper also selected the novel as its Book Choice of the Fortnight.
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