It’s Strasbourg. 1518. A woman begins to dance. The Dancing Plague has begun, and will last throughout the summer. We know only a little about this, as not much in the way of records has survived and the main sources we have are not contemporary. Before this date, there are very scant rumours of other …
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Category:Historical
Kaikeyi – Vaishnavi Patel
“I WAS BORN ON the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good it did me.” “Before this story was Rama’s, it was mine” These are the first and last lines of Kaiyeki. As opening and closing lines go, I’d quite like these to hit the occasional lists of bests and classics. …
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