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Paul Zacharia’s transition from Malayalam to English is as smooth as his breathless novel.

I remember the utter surprise and unbridled pleasure of reading Paul Zacharia's Malayalam stories in translation in the early 1990s, in a volume titled Bhaskar Patellar and Other Stories. I relived some of that pleasure as I read Zacharia's first novel written in English, A Secret History of Compassion. In Malayalam,

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