https://helterskelter.in/2011/03/book-review-reflected-in-water/ Fresh Voices and New Writing From and About India Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:12:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 https://helterskelter.in/2011/03/book-review-reflected-in-water/comment-page-1/#comment-3128 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:12:14 +0000 http://helterskelter.in/?p=2522#comment-3128 […] From Nisha Da Cunha’s insidious, evocative tale of a tradition where the women never leave the house and don’t know unhappiness because they had nothing to contrast it against to Mario Cabral e Sa’s resurrection of the first Portuguese women to come to Goa; from John Huygen van Linschoten’s account of a sixteenth century murder, which he thought would be “good to set it downe in large, that hereby men may better perceyve the boldnesse and [filthie] lecherous minds of the Indian women” to Sonia Faleiro’s portrait of a man, Outkast D’Souza who is acutely sensitive to sound, smell, colour, and touch, but is unable to comprehend reality, the book weaves together a cascade of narratives about people who have walked these shores. […]

]]> https://helterskelter.in/2011/03/book-review-reflected-in-water/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:38:00 +0000 http://helterskelter.in/?p=2522#comment-239 What stunning prose!

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