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Wheels Within Wheels
The Morning Standard
|July 01, 2025
A conversation with author Sundar Sarukkai on his book Water Days—a detective novel set in 1990s Bengaluru that explores migration, memory, language, and what happens to a city silently. A lesson for Delhi?
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Karnataka. These are also the people who built the city," he says. "So this fight about Kannada isn't about language—it's about power. About who gets to belong."
To him, real language is culture, not coercion. "Kannada is a beautiful language with an extraordinary literary tradition. But when it's used politically, stripped of its depth, it becomes something else."
People of Water Days
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