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Acknowledgements
This book would not have been possible without the warmth, the hospitality, and the companionship I was offered from various people across India. Their welcome and friendship altered my world; to thank them here is a mere formality and hardly any indication of my gratitude. In no particular order,
Alka Kumar, Neerja Chand, “MC” Chand, Harish Narang, Pankaj Singh, Kishan Singh, Jaidev, Charu Sharma, Bhishm Sahni, Sheila Sahni, Chandra Mohan, Om Juneja, M. F. Salat, Raj Kumar Hans, Sudha Pandya, Sharifur Rahman, Jameela Begum, K. Ayyappa Panikar.
Also:
Mrinal Miri and the Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
Sanjay Talreja, Rikhav Desai, Achyut Yagnik, Suchitra
Sheth, Amritjit Singh, Devika Nirula, Hariharan, Krishna Kumar, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Thakazhi Sivasankar Pillai, Mulk Raj Anand, Balwinder Singh Dhillon, Sherali Aziz, Abualy Aziz, Madhu Mehra, Asgharali Engineer, Shirin Kudchetkar, Roshan Sahani, Govind Sahani, Raj Mohan.
Maya Mavjee, my publisher for her enthusiasm, her comments, and her sense of humour; Bruce Westwood, my agent; Susan Burns, Alex Schultz, Martha Leonard, Cathy Paine.
Diya Kar Hazra, Khushwant Singh, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri, Rakesh Batabyal.
Stella Sandahl, Alok Mukherjee, Arun Prabha Mukherjee.
And finally Nurjehan, Anil, and Kabir.
About the Author
M.G. Vassanji is the author of six acclaimed novels: The Gunny Sack, which won a regional Commonwealth Prize; No New Land; The Book of Secrets, which won the very first Giller Prize; Amriika; The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, which also received the Giller Prize, and The Assassin’s Song, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons.
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