![]() They are two scientists who observe what is going on, and make different assessments about how social change can occur. ![]() They live near a British colonial club where they are not allowed entry, and see how for so many people, colonial power was replaced by different forms of exploitation and oppression. Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel “The Lowland” tells the story of two brothers Udayan and Subhash who grow up in the early days of Independence. ![]() That it is still reeling from centuries of colonial presence, and that for both countries, the decades since 1947 have been complicated, violent, difficult ones. It is hard sometimes to process that fact – to understand that within the last hundred years India was a colony. Sixty – six years separate today from Pakistan and India’s independence. ![]() I read books to deepen my understanding of the human condition, and I think that condition is a very complex thing, and that people are very complex creatures…” ~Jhumpa Lahiri on The Lowland “I don’t think of my books as being forms of entertainment. ![]()
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