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Walk on Earth a Stranger: Book review on I have become the tide | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Walk on Earth a Stranger: Book review on I have become the tide | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Ram Sarangan |Published: May 25, 2019 10:39:45 am

Walk on Earth a Stranger: Book review on I have become the tide

Githa Hariharan’s new novel is an angry, intimate look at systemic social oppressions

I Have Become The Tide; Githa Hariharan; Simon & Schuster; 322 pages; Rs 499


“We are protozoa — the only cell we have is caste or tribe, official names SC and ST,” says Ravi, one of the central characters of Githa Hariharan’s I Have Become The Tide, while discussing what his friend terms “Manu’s taxonomy”. It’s the darkest kind of humour, a joke that fails to be funny by the time the small group goes to sleep.

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