Arts & Ideas - South Asia: poverty and princes
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Joya Chatterji has written about the South Asian twentieth century in her new book called Shadows at Noon. Tripurdaman Singh has been researching Indian princely states. Novels by Kamala Markandaya (1924-2004) are being republished. Her daughter Kim Oliver and literary scholar Alastair Niven discuss Nectar in a Sieve. A bestseller when it first came out in 1954, it's a story about a tenant farmer, his wife and the impact of a tannery built in a neighbouring village. Rana Mitter hosts.
The books recommended by our guests are:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Those-Days-Sunil-Gangopadhyay/dp/0140268529
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lady-Alice-Bhatti-Mohammed-Hanif/dp/0099516756
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/23130761
Producer: Julian Siddle
Published on Thursday, 6th July 2023.
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