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The Pregnant King

December 16, 2011
By Urmi Chanda-Vaz
The Pregnant King

He wept for his father, the pregnant king, for the imperfection of the human condition, and our stubborn refusal to make room for all those in between. This last line of the book, The Pregnant King by Devdutt Pattanaik, succinctly sums up its message. And what a powerful message! The book is less about...
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American Gods

August 23, 2010
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American Gods

“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.” - From American Gods American Gods by Niel Gaiman presents a thrilling theater of conflict between the ancient and ageing folk gods – who landed in...
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