A Guardian biography of the year 2022Non-Fiction winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Literature 2023This frank, fearless and multi-layered debut centres on a privileged but dysfunctional Indian family, with themes of empire, migration, race, and gender. The Victorian India elephant in the room in Ira Mathur's silk-swathed memoir, Love The Dark Days is in chains. By the time calypso replaces the Raj in post-colonial Trinidad, the chains are off three ge...