The Australian novelist, who would have been 90 this year, has left a memorable oeuvre with war and Southeast Asia and the surrounding region at its centre...
'While those of other communities stayed home, the Anglo-Indian woman stepped out of hers with a handbag full of courage and a demeanour of confidence, to earn an honest living'...
'It (the book) covers politics, history, our culture; it’s about how the community has evolved from the pre-independent to the post-independence eras in India', says the author...