NEW YORK, NY – Megha Majumdar, the acclaimed author of ‘A Burning’, returns this fall with her second novel, ‘A Guardian and a Thief’. Scheduled for release on October 14 by Knopf, the book marks a ...

The title of “A Guardian and a Thief” refers to two different characters, but the terms apply to both: A mother named Ma prepares to flee the scorching Indian city of Kolkata with her toddler and ...

NEW YORK, NY — Megha Majumdar, the Kolkata-born author whose debut A Burning electrified readers around the world, is back with a haunting new work — and it’s already garnering major acclaim. Her ...

Megha Majumdar ’10 writes novels that balance social commentary with a cast of complex characters. In her second novel, “A Guardian and a Thief,” published this October, Majumdar views her hometown of ...

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Whenever I read a novel about immigration, I recall a scene from the 2006 Italian film Nuovomondo (released as Golden Door in English). At the turn of the 20th century, a young Sicilian woman who will ...

Novelist Megha Majumdar’s hometown of Kolkata is one of the cities most affected by climate change. That kind of classification of a place is commonly heard in news stories now, usually accompanied by ...

In the novel, the family makes their way from Kolkata to Ann Arbor.(istockphoto) In a 2020 interview, Majumdar, who worked as an editor for Catapult, said that when she read the drafts of her debut, ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. A National Book Award finalist, Megha Majumdar's "A Guardian and a Thief" (Knopf) is set in India in a climate-ravaged ...

Oct 30 (Reuters) - Indian firm Megha Engineering & Infrastructures said on Thursday it has bought a thermal power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu from Abu Dhabi's TAQA (TAQA.AD), opens new ...

Indian firm Megha Engineering & Infrastructures said on Thursday it has bought a thermal power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu from Abu Dhabi's TAQA to expand its power generation portfolio.