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    Riot
    A Love Story
    Shashi Tharoor

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    Riot
    Booklist
    Aug 1, 2001
    There is no finer guide through the multilayered intricacies of India's
    diverse ideologies than Tharoor, a longtime UN diplomat and celebrated
    author. This novel unravels in spellbinding fashion . . . Tharoor, whose
    previous works are fascinating explorations of India's social climate, here
    reaches gingerly through a haze of violence and offers India in his cupped
    palm like a tiny bird that has not yet spread its wings to find its destiny.
    - Elsa Gaztambide

    Riot
    Library Journal
    Aug 1, 2001
    Drawing on his political savvy as a senior United Nations official, Tharoor
    has written an ingenious story of the investigation into the mysterious
    death of a young American woman during a Hindu-Muslim riot.
    - Michelle Reale

    Riot
    Kirkus Reviews
    Tharoor makes an anguished plea for religious tolerance, in a story about
    the 1989 murder of a young American during a sectarian riot in northern
    India. The New York-based author, an official at the United Nations, is
    impressively knowledgeable and perceptive about the subcontinent's
    history and current ills, including increasing intolerance of religious
    diversity. And the story he tells graphically illustrates incendiary tensions
    between the Hindus and Muslims.

    Riot
    Publishers Weekly
    Aug 13, 2001
    The death of an American woman in India serves as the pretext for a
    thoughtful, sociologically precise novel about the religious tensions racking
    the subcontinent. . . . Tharoor's story is about a larger topic than the
    undoing of one innocent American--it is about the potential fragmentation
    of the secular Indian republic, a tragedy in the making.

    Riot
    The Washington Post
    In his new book, Riot,Tharoor leaves satire behind and points his
    remarkable talent toward tragedy. . . . He succeeds in making his
    characters breathe on the page. He also can make vivid the complicated
    valves of India's centuries-old communal violence. You are never, ever,
    bored, no matter how tough the political and historical going. . . . In our
    own country of many caravans, Riot,is not just a splendidly readable novel
    of memorable characters and complexity. It helps us to see, honestly and
    compassionately, the delicate treacheries we can be most blind to in
    ourselves, especially in times of triumph or grievous pain.
    - Lorraine Adams

    Riot
    Washington Times
    Dec 23, 2001
    As a primer into the modern history of the Hindu-Muslim conflict, as an
    exploration of its impulses, Riotis simply brilliant. One comes away from
    Mr. Tharoor’s novel aware of the many subtleties of rural Indian life, of
    how easily Indian passions can become inflamed. It is as penetrating a
    look at fanaticism as any I have read.
    - Sudip Bose

    Riot
    Baltimore Citypaper Online
    One of the finest novelists in a crop of recently harvested Indian writers.
    Tharoor’s prose is passionate and clever, and his narrative experiments
    evoke the pluralism that he insists is India’s essence.
    - Susan Muaddi Darraj

    Riot
    Seattle Times
    Sep 23, 2001
    Tharoor, perhaps one of the finest novelists writing in English today,
    delivers a tale of ignited passions wrapped in a heart-felt treatise on the
    complexities of Indian society. . . . Rarely has cultural clash been more
    sensitively explored. . . . Within thirteen pages, I found myself reading
    aloud, reveling in Tharoor’s perfect ear for the words of everyone from a
    self-important minor civil servant to a young girl in love. . . . I laid Riot
    down understanding that there’s no Hindu pope, no Hindu Sunday, and no
    such thing as a Hindu heresy, but there may be a Hindu Shakespeare.
    Even if he lives in New York.
    - Deloris Tarzan Ament

    Riot
    Hartford Courant
    Oct 28, 2001
    Remarkably inventive . . . Riot is like a Rashomonfor the late 20th
    century. Tharoor has given us a gift. For through his profound novelm we
    can appreciate the subjectivity of truth and the proliferation (and
    detriment) of cultural blindness in the West and the East.

    Riot
    Colorado Springs Independent
    Oct 4, 2001
    Tharoor is an eloquent chronicler of Indian history and politics and Riotis a
    dazzling piece of work.

    Riot
    Newsline (Karachi)
    Jan 2, 2002
    The often alarming proximity of love, hate and history is richly drawn out
    in Shashi Tharoor’s latest novel Riot.Endearing details like Lakshman’s
    obsession with Wilde help to give the characters depth . . . Tharoor’s
    command over the different styles he uses is impressive. He is equally at
    ease with a transcript of the Sikh police chief’s caustic, expletive-ridden
    style as he is with a tender moment between the two lovers. Everywhere
    his writing is sharp and concise, and the book has
    ...more
    been sensitively structured. It retains a highly convincing balance between
    the ‘plot’ (in the form of the love affair) and the politics (in the form of the
    sectarian riots). Never once does Riotfeel ponderous or heavy-handed.
    What Tharoor has managed to do is give us a love story, potent social
    commentary and broad historical analysis all rolled into one novel.
    - Emile Chabal

    Riot
    The Free Lance-Star
    Dec 16, 2001
    The Western reader will finish the book . . . with a mind expanded by a
    new understanding of violent religious conflict that a secular society so
    often struggles to comprehend.
    - Cody Ellerd

    Riot
    Asian Wall Street Journal
    Dec 14, 2001
    [Riot’s] greatest virtue is that without being pedantic or didactic, it
    presents an accurate picture of the thinking of the various forces that are
    competing for supremacy in contemporary India.
    - Mr. Tripathi

    Riot
    Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture
    Apr 1, 2002
    By weaving together various perspectives on the historical Babri Masjid
    mosque-Ram Janmabhoomi temple issue with the various possible
    motives for the murder of his character Priscilla Hart, Tharoor deftly
    reframes the communal riot narrative . . . to demonstrate how Western
    imperialism remains implicated in postcolonial communalism. The novel's
    multiple first-person political perspectives make it a good introduction to
    the political climate of north India.
    - Karline McLain

    Riot
    News India
    May 24, 2002
    Amazing . . . it makes us wonder if artists are, indeed, endowed with a
    third eye, enabling them to see characters and events long before they
    figure in newspaper headlines. . . . Tharoor also has been the unofficial
    ambassador of India’s perennial ethos to the rest of the world . . . able to
    click open the shutters in people’s minds. . . . “An unacknowledged
    legislator of mankind.”
    - Jyotirmoy Datta

    Riot
    World Literature Today
    May 1, 2002
    Tharoor presents his characters with sensitivity and understanding, deftly
    bringing out the complications of a multicultural society.

    Riot
    Asia & the Pacific Reviews
    Jun 1, 2002
    Tharoor presents his characters with sensitivity and understanding, deftly
    bringing out the complications of a multicultural society. . . . Riotacquires
    a poignancy that is sure to move critics and readers alike.
    - Ramlal Agarwal

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