Category: Books
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Book Review—Blood Island By Deep Haldar
Sukhchand has decided to leave Kadambari (his village); leave East Pakistan and cross over to that new country they call India. Just the name itself is a cuss word here, but this country is no longer safe for Hindus, for his wife and Sachin (his son). It would be their last Durga Puja in the […]
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Book Review—The Meaning of India By Raja Rao
“India is not a country (desa), it is a perspective (darsana); it is not a climate but a mood (rasa) in the play of the absolute— it is not the Indian who makes India but ‘India’ makes the Indian, and this India is in all: it is that centre of awareness wherein ones’s self dips […]
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Book Review—The Science Of Storytelling By Will Storr
It is not only us who are broken; it is not only us who are conflicted; it is not only us who are confused; it is not only us who have dark thoughts and bitter regrets and feel possessed, at times, by hateful selves. It is not only us who are scared. The magic of […]
The Idiosyncratic Idiot 