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Sumana Roy's review of Home Products.
Published in The Book Review, August Issue, 2007. (PDF)
Excerpt
Home Products marks the much welcome return of Home as home, not as space but place, not as metaphor, not in quotes, but as a real place with a doormat outside the door, a place where history works silently, like sunshine or moss, to produce what only it can -- stories, with whom it incestuously fathers children, their home products. Home is ghar, without italics, for whom Sehwag, the Indian cricketer, speaks in Hindi; home does not begin in capital letters, when it lets out a warning for attention, it is always the lower case, Binod's Motihari, Om Puri's Ambala; home is laboratory where the first experiments with the world take place, where Harvard becomes "Harward" and "lawyer" "liar", where Sartre's play, in the "Indian version", creates melodrama instead of shame, and where Macbeth becomes Maqbool.
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