AS TOLD TO BC PIRES My name is Ira Mathur and my memoir Love the Dark Days was published last year. I was born in an army hospital in Guwahati, the heart of India’s tea country. My earliest memory is being in my ayah’s arms, following my grandmother and several soldiers on a hunt for
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NOT SINCE VS Naipaul’s official biography, The World Is What It Is, has the genre of memoir been gifted a book like Ira Mathur’s Love the Dark Days, a work so candid the reader wonders whether it is perhaps too candid. From cover to cover, and at all points in between, the reader of Love