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Oona Mountain Wind is an intense account by a mother who faces a double tragedy. It is a journey through memory of thirty-three years of her daughter Oona's life and three and a half of Ilya's, Oona's daughter, as Jasjit Mansingh struggles to find meaning in the fact of young lives, so obviously good, snuffed out arbitrarily. Is there a God, and what kind of God is it who allows such things to happen? Is the only reality the tangible one of flesh and blood, of ...
The selection, and its arrangement, provides a fascinating overview of the historical vicissitudes forced on a state and its people largely because of its strategic geographic position in the subcontinent. Through the eyes of these sensitive writers, belonging to all shades of political ideology, we get glimpses of an industrious, hardworking people blessed to be living in this fertile land. The women protagonists in many stories are torch-bearers of liberalism, ...