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The red letters: My father’s enchanted period (Penguin,
Rs 250) by Ved Mehta is about the author’s
discovery of his father’s love affair, in the Thirties,
with a married woman called Rasil, who was also a close friend
of Ved’s mother. This is the eleventh, and last, volume
in Mehta’s “Continents of Exile” series, about
which he writes, in an extraordinary fit of self-explication:
“The series is predicated on the notion that the more particular
a story, the more universal it is; and thus although the work
is ostensibly autobiographical, it tells a cross-cultural story
of India, England, and America. At the same time, it is also an
intellectual voyage, which explores themes of family and love,
journalism and psychoanalysis, among others. The story itself
spans the twentieth century, with parts of it reaching back to
the nineteenth.”
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