Arundhati Roy used the character of an inquisitive little girl in her Man Booker Prize winner 1997 novel The God of Small Things to pose a question that resurfaced again two decades later in her novel The Ministry of Untold Happiness, wherein the central character inquires “Where do old birds go to die? Why don’t …
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Our neighbourhood is starting to come under the spell of the fall. Smaller maple trees in the park are already displaying a riot of colours - lemon yellow, russet, orange, not quite a full-blown-red and lilac.... my older granddaughter is convinced that I do not know my colours and I agree. Nature's palette is beyond …
