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Aug 22, 2021Liked by Claire Berlinski

Mr. Kelkar is on a roll. He’s giving us one great essay after the next. A few years ago, the great British travel writer, Colin Thubrin, wrote a wonderful and revealing book about his travels in Central Asia. It’s a great ethnographic study of that part of the world but it’s very much in the tradition of travel writing, not anthropology.

These days, every time Mr. Kelkar writes something, it reminds me of a book gathering dust on my bookshelf. Anyone who wants a fascinating tour of Central Asia may want to take a look at

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061231770/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_0061231770

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Exactly the point I was going to make.

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