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“The past is an inheritance, and how it reaches you depends on many things—how conscientious your family is, the presence or absence of public libraries, what they teach in schools, whether you’re from a caste whose privileges include owning their history or from a caste low on the totem pole, deprived of its own history along with so much else.”
― The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading
― The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading
“The darkness may seem empty and vast, but my whiskers say it is criss-crossed with the paths of the birds—can you not feel them? High up, the rough drumbeat of the cheels carves broad highways above the clouds; over our heads, across the trees, you can trace the soaring songlines of the bulbuls, the trails left by the sharp swift sorties of the parakeets.”
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“But no literature grows in isolation, and looking at the history of Indian writing in English is like looking at a silent movie made up of static postcards of Delhi, or Mumbai, or any other thronged Indian city: the life, the colour, the hubbub of hundreds of eager new writers and high-minded editors, peacocking poets and fiery-eyed pamphleteers, all of that has been bled out of collective memory. In the same year that Dean Mahomet wrote his Travels, the Madras Hircarrah (1794) started up, joining Hicky’s Bengal Gazette (1780) and the India Gazette (1781); the first in a flood of periodicals and journals that would breathlessly, urgently take the news of India running along from one province to another. The”
― The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading
― The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading
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3rd Quarter 2019 - Fantasy #2
The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta, 352p
Medusa's Web by Tim Powers, 368p
The Wildings by Nilanjana Roy, 312p
Slayer by Kiersten White, 404p
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams, 544p
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks, 629p
Dreamhunter by Elizabeth Knox, 365p
Winter of Ice and Iron by Rachel Neumeier, 561p
Vengeance by Ian Irvine, 544p
The Guns Above by Robyn Bennis, 352p
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Kolkata Book Fair: Kolkata Literary Meet 2013 | 2 | 151 | Jan 18, 2013 07:50AM | |
| All About Books: dely's personal challenges 2014 | 17 | 69 | Dec 14, 2014 01:06PM | |
| Indian Readers: personal challenges 2014 - dely | 13 | 217 | Dec 14, 2014 01:06PM | |
| All About Books: dely's books 2014 | 198 | 127 | Dec 31, 2014 01:07PM | |
| Indian Readers: dely, old and wise through 2014 | 183 | 236 | Jan 04, 2015 02:21AM | |
| Indian Readers: Who do you think is the newest kid on the block in Indian English Literature? | 59 | 384 | May 02, 2015 05:31AM | |
| Indian Readers: dely's challenges 2015 | 45 | 236 | Nov 20, 2015 12:58PM | |
| All About Books: dely's personal challenges 2015 | 61 | 109 | Nov 20, 2015 12:58PM | |
| All About Books: 'New Starts' Theme - 2015 | 157 | 250 | Dec 04, 2015 03:10AM |
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