The ground we trample upon, is it ours? Are there lines that separate us from the place that we consider our own? Can cartographers, fend off memories besides fending off people from reaching and connecting to each other? What does it mean to have freedom? Amitav Ghosh's ground shaking novel, 'The Shadow Lines' for which he received the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award seeks answers to these as well as many other troubling questions that impatiently remain to be answered. Reading this work is sometimes relieving and sometimes disturbing. Yet, you can always close its pages with the satisfaction of having read an immensely relatable and emotionally touching story of partition and double consciousness.
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