Grief, she argues, can be a fundamentally selfish pursuit.
The Far Fieldprobes one womans coming to grips with the death of her harsh, beguiling, unknowable mother.
Shalini tells her story as a 30-year-old reeling from a tragedy of her own making.
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But her privilege is confronted by chaos, her naivete in Bashirs war-torn village proving sadly untenable even deadly.
The Far Fieldbecomes a layered examination of pressing Indian political conflicts.
