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'Count Every Breath': A poetry anthology about climate change offers possibilities for the future

The war against climate change is worth fighting, says every poem in this collection.

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Bound announces course on book and digital publishing

Bound India has announced its latest offering for the publishing industry, the Bound Publishing Course — a comprehensive course on book and digital publishing.

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Verse Affairs: Three New Poets

The many different experiences of poets expand the horizon of Indian poetry in English.

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Mumbai-based company Bound aims to sheds light on the publishing industry

Mumbai-based company Bound, run entirely by young women, aims to demystify the publishing industry

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Janhavi Acharekar reviews Lindsay Pereira's 'Gods and Ends'

Updated:
May 07, 2021 12:16 IST
With an insider’s familiarity, Lindsay Pereira presents brutally honest vignettes of Mumbai’s Roman Catholic community
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With an insider’s familiarity, Lindsay Pereira presents brutally honest vignettes of Mumbai’s Roman Catholic community
Reminiscent of Sartre’s existential play
No Exit, the characters in Lindsay Pereira’s debut novel,
Gods and Ends, are trapped in a shared living space they cannot leave — a chawl named Obrigado Mansion.
Set in the Catholic neighbourhood of Orlem in suburban Bombay of the 70s, the book is a scathing commentary on the local Roman Catholic community, its idiosyncrasies and hypocrisies, and religion. Disillusionment runs deep among the working-class alcoholic men, embittered women, and desperate young girls dreaming of escape from the confines of their oppressive matchbox-sized homes in Obrigado Mansion. The irony of the chawl’s name is not lost on the reader:

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