Red River

29 February, 2024

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Somnath Batabyal

This novel, which moves between Assam, Bangladesh, Bhutan and London and follows the lives of three friends whose families have been wrenched apart by violence, confronts political tension, citizenship, belonging, nationalism and migration.

Context, Westland, Rs 699, 364 pages

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