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A loaded letter from a long-lost mom

Roy lives in Ranikhet, a remote hill town in the Himalayas

PARTWAY THROUGH ANURADHA ROY’S All the Lives We Never Lived, the German artist Walter Spies makes the case for simply enjoying life in India amid the global upheaval of the 1930s. “We are oceans away from all that,” he says. Another character disagrees: “The world

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