🐲Sometimes my son asks in English: “Baba, what does <i>duniya</i> mean?” It means the world, beta, the world that I have lost. The world of Hindi
Amitava Kumar
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ꦡTo return to Patna is to find the challenging thought of death, like the tip of a knife, pressing against my rib.
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It wasn't just about standing up for freedom of expression in India: maybe I was doing something more humble and honest. I was trying to restore a sense of balance to my own personal practice of literary criticism.
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🐽He was indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger. He never published a classic text nor did he achieve anything like fame. The publication of his <i>Selected Writings</i> is an occasion for sorrow as well as celebration.
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Fidelity to his interlocutors, and to their detail and circumstance, as much as the intelligence and brightness of Mehta's own prose, makes it an extraordinary debut--a debut that will rival Arundhati Roy's in fiction.
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