Balu George | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:02:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 The Last Emperor https://www.thesmartset.com/the-last-emperor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-last-emperor https://www.thesmartset.com/the-last-emperor/#respond Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=61662 The boy of 11 is at a book fair. School is out in Cochin, India, and he has dragged his father along to the book fair in the city. In two days’ time, the family is going on vacation to Ahmednagar, where his father’s elder brother stays. The uncle works in a sugar factory there, […]

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