"You see you are associated less with a country and more with places. Country is too abstract a thing. You associate not even with a place but with a mohalla…you have nothing to with the rest of the world," Arvind Krishna Mehrotra says on a sense of belonging. https://t.co/KtLz49uj0f
By Digvijay Nikam
An insightful review of a Gujarati biography of celebrated painter Bhupen Khakhar.
My brother Biren Kothari took almost a decade to write it & it was worth it.
Thanks Digvijay Nikam for the writing this.
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To conclude with the words of Amrishbhai: “This book will appeal not just to the connoisseurs of visual art but to everyone who is interested in the human self.”
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Digvijay Nikam ✍️
This review essay of Jon Fosse’s new novel contains my thoughts on autofiction, the essay, and impersonality, and the way these are part of a counter-movement that’s also vulnerable to appropriation: https://t.co/85n7q7M8IO
You have to register (for free) to read it.
I’m offering a new course to students @AshokaUniv next term that will also be available, via @TORCHOxford to students and faculty at Oxford to participate in. Students at other universities - anyone, for that matter - can register.
Details here: https://t.co/q3ER5vqP7a
"An individual beggar or tramp walking along dusty village roads is seldom part of recorded history nor is it news, except when the tramp is also a poet and records the moment in a line of verse"
@litactivism
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"To be an Indian writer means that you’re writing about India. What you’re doing to and with the form won’t determine the terms of critique where you’re concerned."
@AmitChaudhuri