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    Diksha Basu

    Jun 14, 2017 3 minutes
    by Crown.

    INTRODUCED BY

    Gary Shteyngart the author of four books, including the memoir Little Failure, published by Random House in 2014.

    DIKSHA Basu’s is one of the funniest novels I’ve read in recent times—and I read a lotta funny. But the humor doesn’t detract from some of the serious issues Basu touches on in her quest to capture the world of new money in New Delhi. is about long-entrenched conservatism struggling

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