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‘The First of the Odds’: A short story by novelist Anees Salim
Written as a polyphonic narrative, The Odd Book of Baby Names traces the lives of nine children, many of them illegitimate, of one of India’s last monarchs. This was omitted from the published version of the book and has now come forward to be read as a …