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Author Name: Amita Kanekar

Amita Kanekar is a Mumbai-based writer, whose well-received debut novel A Spoke in the Wheel was published by Harper Collins Publishers, India. Kanekar teaches comparative mythology at the University of Mumbai. She was born in Goa in 1965. She is currently (2006) working on her second novel. She has lived in the U.S. as a child, and also teaches architectural history.

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A Spoke in the Wheel

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This is a story about the Buddha and his disciples, among them an ordinary monk, one of the questioners, and an extraordinary k... Read More

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When the past unravels, is love enough to hold the future together? To the world, Alka’s life is picture-perfect—she lives a charmed existence in a beautiful heritage bungalow on her husband Subbu’s coffee estate with their two lovely daughters. But when disaster strikes after Subbu’s near-fatal accident, buried secrets begin to surface, ripping apart the veneer of p Read More...

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