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Arundhati Basu

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Arundhati Basu is a former journalist from Calcutta, India. She studied English Literature at Presidency College, Calcutta, and followed it up with an MA Diploma in journalism studies from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in New Delhi. Basu started her writing career in 2003, reporting for the leading dailies in Delhi, The Times of India and The Telegraph. In 2012, she quit journalism. In the same year, she relocated with her spouse, Aditya Varma, to the Midlands in the UK. She started working as a freelance writer. Alongside she travelled extensively with Varma and wrote about her travels in her popular travel blog, The Travelling Diary of a Dippy Dotty Girl. In 2017, she relocated with her husband to the United States. Now, she ...more

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Around the corner cometh spring. There’s this treasure trove of gratitude in my heart as I take to the nature trails around us. For all of it, nature’s offerings seem even more vivid on the cusp between winter and summer. Some days the skies turn leaden, swollen with unspent rain clouds. On others, the lightest of blue skies be littered with cotton candy clouds, the trails around us alive with the

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Promise Me (Myron Bolitar, #8)

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Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude

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1984

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