Book Review | Who Is A Provincial? Sumana Roy Pens Ode To Life On The Periphery. Scripts Challenging But Rewarding Read

In ‘Provincials’, author Sumana Roy, herself a proud provincial from Siliguri, a small city in northern West Bengal, celebrates the richness and diversity of provincial life.

Author Sumana Roy.

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Sumana Roy’s Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries is a masterful and audacious journey into the heart of existence on the fringes of our contemporary world, both geographically and culturally. Roy, an associate professor at Ashoka University, has authored several acclaimed works, including How I Became a Tree (shortlisted for the 2017 Shakti Bhatt Prize), Missing: A Novel, and two poetry collections, Out of Syllabus and V. I. P: Very Important Plant. She has been a fellow at the