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Free event.
Veena will read from her debut fiction collection – Bombay Wali and other stories, just published by Guernica Editions and launched at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Montreal. In her story, Absolution, Ashok, a no-nonsense businessman living in Pune, India, is talked into taking yoga classes. He is none too happy but…
Twelve stories that provide tantalizing glimpses of contemporary lives in Bombay, other locales in India, and elsewhere – Kathmandu, Tokyo, an unnamed tropical island and Toronto. Stories about friendship and resentment, family ties and freedom, violence – public and private, despair and acceptance, ambition and uncertainty, growing up and growing old.