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An ageing civil servant who lives only in memory, a German woman once taken for a spy, a doctor who visits patients on horseback and a philosopher who has taken to growing apples. A strange cast, against the backdrop of a small town in the Himalayan foothills where the twilight of Empire lingers on. Nirmal Verma’s new novel begins where the stories of its characters ended. Their lives have already been lived, yet something remains to be done before the evening ...
The Samvatsar Lectures-XI delivered by Sri Nirmal Verma in two parts on Concept of 'Truth' in Art is a profound mixture of his deep erudition and experience as a writer. To Verma, a work of art does not communicate truth-it is the truth itself. It carries within itself multiple layers of meaning, coexisting or sometimes colliding. A work of art acquires the numinous quality of the sacred-a 'return' to the primal sense of our being. He strongly believes that the ...
A tribute to the writer's genius, an inch and a half above ground culls his most claimed stories from published collections, competently translated by academics and intellectuals who are recognized names in their own right. This collection, the first of its kind, also includes the novella we din. It is a universe uniquely Verma's-with the stories appearing in chronological order the book also maps his evolution as a writer.