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By setting her love story in the time of the Emergency, author Srishti Chaudhary does something altogether novel. The novel is quite compelling for those who lived through the travails of the Emergency.

The most striking thing about Srishti Chaudhary's Once upon a Curfew is its subject-a love story set in the time of the Emergency. Period romances in India usually stay away from political events of the contemporary era and this must indeed

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