A Sri Lankan masala of villanelle

Anything with a ‘pottu’ charm pressed onto something close to home keeps me entirely enthused. Especially when looking back at both our lines of ancestry it is somewhat a similar anecdote in reverse; the only difference is that my maternal grandmother's memory seems rather dim when asked where exactly in Kerala.

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The immigrant and diasporic novel

A prominent diasporic writer featured at the HSBC Galle Literary Festival of 2011 is Manju Kapur who is the author of three bestselling novels; Difficult Daughters, A Married Woman and Home . Manju Kapur lives in New Delhi where she teaches English Literature at Miranda House, Delhi University. Her latest novel is The Immigrant.

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