Twinned Timelines
India Today|14th October, 2024
Two narratives combine in Radhika Oberoi's Of Mothers and Other Perishables to create a personal and political story
Geeta Doctor
Twinned Timelines

OF MOTHERS AND OTHER PERISHABLES By Radhika Oberoi SIMON AND SCHUSTER INDIA ₹699; 312 pages

On her interI generational novel set in New Delhi, Radhika Oberoi hurls a Molotov cocktail wrapped in a satin scarf embroidered with the words from a consortium of dead poets. It detonates gently. If this were a Pedro Almodóvar film, it would rain down like red rose petals on the marble domes of the Lotus Temple that finds mention in the text.

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