{"id":173,"date":"2026-05-10T17:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/?p=173"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:13:28","slug":"another-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Another Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have just finished reading <em>The Burning Grounds<\/em> by Abir Mukherjee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the past is another country, then one thing better than a novel set in the past, is one set in the past in another country. This is the most recent in a series set in Calcutta in the 1920s, with a broken English policeman and an upper class Bengali sidekick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are all well-plotted and evocative of the time and place, with a selection of believable characters. Although some have rather too modern sensibilities, this is not too jarring, for me at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like to think that the writing is not too different from my own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have an interest in India and you like <em>The Urchin<\/em>, then you might well like this series &#8211; and perhaps vice versa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just finished reading The Burning Grounds by Abir Mukherjee. If the past is another country, then one thing better than a novel set in the past, is one set in the past in another country. This is the most recent in a series set in Calcutta in the 1920s, with a broken English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}