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What a beautiful way to write an "India book".
TR Shankar Raman's The trees of my country: A Natural History of India in 50 Trees, illustrated by Manali Patel, takes you from the spectacular showboats to the unobtrusive, hardy survivors.
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"Every tree is a storyteller, a historian, a chronicler of place. In their rootedness to particular places, in their long-lived and silent attention to the changes around them, and in their tendrils of connection to other lifeforms, trees embody a perspective both unique and invaluable for us to understand the world. By paying attention to trees, you can begin to hear the stories they tell, the histories they document, the places they describe...
...this book essays to perceive trees, in India and beyond, as fully-formed beings, as subjects with rich lives of their own."
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Monet only spent a few weeks in Venice in 1908, but the light in the city completely caught him off guard. He was 68, tired, and swore he wasn’t going to paint… then he saw the canals and ended up creating some of the softest, dreamiest works of his late life.
My family runs a homestay in the hills of Darjeeling and it goes without saying that we have to deal with all kinds of people. However, we have noticed some things that seem to be uniform behaviour for all Indians:
a) They will dirty the room, and not spare even the pillows,
"The world is very, very beautiful if you look at it, but most people don't look very much, do they? Scan the ground in front of them so they can walk, but they don't really look at things incredibly well, with an intensity. I do, and I've always known that."
~ David Hockney
Thoroughly enjoyed every word of this book because of the way it celebrates food and navigates the relationship between the colonisers and the colonised - their biases, and the way they view each other.
I find it difficult to believe that anyone in 1938 (the year in which the book is set) would actually have thought or written something like this about indigenous cultures, food, or even the act of eating itself. But this is fiction, written in the present for us to read now, and it is quite beautiful.
Tip: Avoid reading reviews on Goodreads or from professional critics. Dive into the book with an open mind.
i love when you read a book and you become so emotionally invested in it, and when you walk around public places after reading it you feel like you’re in this bubble by yourself, like you’re so deeply inside your mind you’re actually out of touch with reality.