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Book Review: All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy – By George Somasundaram Image Source : facebook Source : Dæhæna – March 2024 Anuradha Roy, the author of “All the Lives we never lived” is a successful Indian novelist. This book is her fourth (published in 2018) hot on the heels of the highly acclaimed “Sleeping on Jupiter”. She and husband Rukun Advani reside in Ranikhet, in the foothills of the Himalayas, having founded “Permanent Black”, a publishing company focused on academic literature. ‘In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run-off with an Englishman. The man was in fact a German, but in a small town in India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought to be British’. Thus begins “All the Lives we never lived”, set around the time of the fight for Indian Independence and World War 2. The beautifully written ...