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Bilingual people engage the same brain region that monolingual individuals use to put together words—even when combining different languages

‘Avasthe’: UR Ananthamurthy’s novel interrogates politics for its relationship with love and life Unfortunately, this English version is more of a novel-sized rendition of the novel than a living, breathing translation. UR Ananthamurthy In all his fiction, UR Ananthamurthy does more than narrate a story; he interrogates it. In his hands, the story must speculate on its own tale, search for meaning, and teem with ideas. Accordingly, while the plot of his novel Avasthe concerns its...