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Alka Joshi’s The Henna Artist takes place in newly independent India, following the life of Lakshmi, who at the age of seventeen-years-old, managed to escape from her abusive marriage. Travelling all the way from her husband’s village to the Pink City, Jaipur, Lakshmi becomes a henna artist for some of the elite. An ambitious andContinue reading “The Henna Artist”