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    Open Couplets
    Open Couplets
    Open Couplets
    Ebook165 pages2 hours

    Open Couplets

    By Torsa Ghosal

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    Somewhere in the dingy lanes of north Kolkata, a young girl born to a family of idol-makers learns to carve goddesses with her own hands, a right that her artisan father had reserved for her brother. But, years later, when Ira Chatterjee—a breezy, jet-setting ethnographer born in the same neighbourhood—comes looking for the girl, no one knows where to find her.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYODA PRESS
    Release dateDec 31, 2018
    ISBN9382579222
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