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Fifteen years after its publication, Cracking India, by Bapsi Sidhwa, is still on the bestseller lists in India. The basis for the 1999 film Earth by director Deepa Mehta, the novel features an 8-year-old girl named Lenny, who watches as her community is torn apart by the partition of Britain’s South Asian colonies into India […]https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/about-the-texas-observer.jpg740402