Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese; Random House India; 2009, paperback, pp.542, Rs.595.

This paper is about hopscotching, and in turn jumps over many disciplinary categories, from literature to gender studies to development studies. At one level this is the voice of the interdisciplinary academic who brings a literary training to bear on the field of development studies, where with...

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