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Vandana Shanker

How Shall I love you? (in Imitation of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘How shall I love…

Vandana Shanker Feb 7, 2017

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and…
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Novels set in 1857 India

Vandana Shanker Feb 7, 2017

A few days ago, I came across one of the books that had troubled me so much when I first read it - over a decade ago. M.M.Kaye’s The Shadow of the Moon. I enjoyed reading the book; at the same time, it left me strangely upset. It tells the…
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