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| Review of Jet City Woman by Ankush Saikia: Tehelka (web), 15th January 2008 |
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Ankush Saikia's debut, Jet City Woman, begins with the image of auto-rickshaws waiting in long queues for CNG at a pump outside a five star hotel, while inside artists and buyers move quietly past paintings at an art exhibition. This juxtaposition is the essence of Saikia's Delhi. Suffused with this feeling of outside-inside comes this 190-page narrative of a boy from somewhere else growing into a troubled and uneasy man in a big city.
Click here to read the rest of the review on the tehelka web site. |
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