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The author captures the various inflections points in India’s political history: the partition from Pakistan, the conflicts with its neighbours China and Pakistan, the separation of Bangladesh, the military invasion of the Golden Temple, the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the brutal killings of Sikhs that followed, and finally the blowing up of Air India flight 182.Entwined in these events are the stories of three women whose own lives are woven together by quirks of fate and twists of history: Bibi-ji who steals her older sister’s intended husband and moves to Vancouver before partition, Nimmo, daughter of that older sister and the only survivor after the mob kills her parents during the painful birth of India and Pakistan, and Leela, half Indian and half German, who is perennially in a half-way house both in her native India and the country she follows her husband to, Canada.These characters wear their Indian-ness like a badge, never quite integrating, destined to be on the margins, be they wealthy like Bibi-ji or poor like Nimmo. This remoteness comes home even when the omniscient narrator refers to white people as Goras. In fact, I had difficulty with this narrator who kept indiscriminately popping in and out of the heads of the characters, both principal and minor alike, reducing them to cardboard cut-outs in places. This was the one flaw in an otherwise well crafted novel with slices of Indian life and dialogue that is fresh, humorous and insightful.The span of the action covers the greater part of the 20th century and many time periods and events in the lives of the characters are skimmed over to zero in only on key ones. Hence we do not hear much of the birth of Nimmo’s daughter Kamal, but we get a drawn out scene of Bibi-ji and Pa-ji’s visit to the school principal to discuss their adopted son Jasbir’s misbehaviour.The private tensions in the lives of the three women are reflections of the wider conflicts facing the newly independent India, both internally between its diverse citizens, and externally with its neighbours, even between its distant exiles in Canada. The indiscriminate loss of life in this conflict also comes home sharply when key people start dropping like flies from chapter to chapter.In the end, the survivors are left bereft and horribly changed and the only person finding redemption from the conflict is Jasbir, the bad apple in the family who left to join the Khalistan rebellion, and finds his way back home after seeing the damage that the movement, its actions and consequences wreak on his own family. When I put this book down, I couldn’t help but feel that as much as the author was humouring me with scenes of domesticity and social intercourse in Indian society both at home and abroad, she was hammering me with some brutal lessons of history that I never got to read about from the inside.
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