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Interpreter of Maladies

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From: India Today
Date: 20050815
Author:Joel Rai

AUTHORSPEAK: PETER J. KARTHAK

Interpreter of Maladies

Albert Camus, Nikos Kazantzakis, Hermann Hesse, Woody Guthrie and Joan Baez live in harmony in his mind. As might well be expected of a rock musician and a literature student. But in Peter J. Karthak, an energetic 63-year-old jack of all trades, these are not names picked up on the way during the swinging '60s, but life-and-thought-shaping influences.

It isn't then a coincidence perhaps that he has chosen a '60s gang rape in an indolent Darjeeling town as the subject of his first novel in English, EveryPlace: EveryPerson (Vajra ...

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