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This book is not about the earthquake that wrecked the region of Kutch in 2001. Nor is it an activist's investigation into what happened after the disaster. Kutchi history is fraught with unimaginable disasters. . .earthquakes, droughts, famines, invasions by rats, locusts, giant black ants, floods, the plague, invasions by warlords and oppression under successive rulers. The recent earthquake was just another occurrence of disaster that the people have had to ...
A collection of short stories in three parts, this book abounds in oddballs characters, misfits who seem to ;live on the very edge of community existence, unfettered by social, cultural, and historical boundaries, and oblivious of the inexorable cruelty of historical circumstance. In the first section, 'Living with Sarah', an Iranian refugee carries his cross of hurt, loss and displacement in search of his magnificent obsession, Sarah, a drug addict; Rabindranath ...
Little does Biren know that the trip he is making to Calcutta to stay in a friend’s flat, in isolation, to break through a creative block, will be the most revealing journey he has ever made into himself. His suppressed feelings will unravel themselves like strings from a ball, till finally he holds just his self…and it is in this self that he will discover that beyond the edge of cultural and societal differences there is the powerful web of connectedness ...