Silhouettes.

(From The Statesman (India))

The Strawberry Patch Nonda Chatterjee Penguin 228 pp, Rs 250 NONDA Chatterjee's ma-iden collection of short stories form a set of perceptive vignettes of life in India, spanning the last hundred years. At the turn of the 19th century, a zamindarni def-ends her bastion with military precision against a formidable force of British soldiers. In a little village in Rewa in the 1950s, a young woman's fierce loyalty to her untouchable community leads her to make an unimaginable sacrifice. And closer to our times, Krishna, named after the legendary Draupadi, discovers to her utter surprise that blood ties seldom determine true family.

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