An Intimate yet Epic vision: SURALAKSHMI VILLA

In the state of seige that we are living in across the world, or, like myself, in an Italy emerging from the pandemic battlefield, a riveting book is our best means of being transported beyond our confined horizons. Just such a book is Aruna Chakravarti's richly imagined novel Suralakshmi Villa, which I read during the quarantine in Rome. Cocooned in the exquisite prose and