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| | Visage Magazine Articles > Book Review: The Miniaturist by Kunal Basu Review by Umbereen Beg Mirza :: Issue 49, Vol 12 |
 | | Before the advent of mass publishing, miniaturists have always played an important role in the courts of all rulers, small or great, in this part of the world- illustrating manuscripts for the lord’s pleasure or extolling his virtues for the generations to come. |
 | | Bihzad, the son of the Khwaja of the Kitabkhana, was named after the great, almost legendary miniaturist Bihzad, who brought glory to many of the best known Persian tales- Yousuf and Zuleikha, Rustom, Shirin. |
 | | By the end, Basu’s novel too has transformed itself from a mere story of a miniaturist in an Indian court, to the tale of something timeless and mysterious. |
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