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"Although sometimes heavy handed, the stories are sharply tactile, and the city of Kittur is richly imagined."
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga: Book summary 2010
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And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and the poets and the prophets of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed.
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga: Book summary 2010
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A privileged schoolboy, using his own ties to the Kittur underworld, sets off an explosive in a Jesuit-school classroom in protest against casteism.
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga: Book summary 2010
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It is set in the fictitious city of Kittur, somewhere south of Goa, and, like Steinbeck's Cannery Row, dips briefly but all-seeingly into the lives of a dozen or so of its socially, racially and religiously diverse inhabitants.
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It's a series of unlinked vignettes set in Kittur in South India and I guess it was an earlier attempt at writing pre-The Whie Tiger.
Archive 2009-03-01 uknaija 2009
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It's a series of unlinked vignettes set in Kittur in South India and I guess it was an earlier attempt at writing pre-The Whie Tiger.
Family budgets, an earlier Adiga and political feuds uknaija 2009
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The arches of the railway station frame your first view of Kittur as you arrive as a passenger on the Madras Mail (arrival early morning) or the West Coast Express (arrival afternoon).
THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008
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He was the sixth of eleven children from a farm-laboring family up in the north of the state; as soon as the rains ended, his father had put him on a bus, with instructions to get off at Kittur and walk around the market until someone took him in.
THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008
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The Indian army is setting up a base somewhere between Kittur and Calicut.
THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008
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Several trains full of soldiers had arrived in Kittur—there was talk in the market that a new army base was being set up on the route to Cochin— and for days after the soldiers left, freight trains followed in their wake, carrying large crates that needed to be off- loaded.
THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008
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