The Town Slowly Empties

On Life and Culture during Lockdown

The Town Slowly Empties
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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Paperback
h203 x 127mm - 200pg
16 Feb 2021 UK
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9781909394759
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The Town Slowly Empties is a mind-travel under the shadow of a global pandemic. It offers a lived perspective on an extraordinary time through art, cinema, literature and politics. This book is a compelling account of the human condition that soars high above the empty streets.
"The Town Slowly Empties retains a raw and authentic tone, describing an experience from the inside, unmediated by time and memory. "Sasha Dugdale (from the Foreword), Author of Deformations"In this book of quiet meditations, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee shows the unique value of sensible, informed and honest thought. . . The greatest contribution is the author' s sheer calm of mind in a world driven mad by anxiety. "Peter Riley, Editor of The Fortnightly Review "Lyrical and evocative, a pandemic journal with a difference. "Siddhartha Deb, Author of The Beautiful and the Damned "Captivating observations, piercing personal memories and essayistic reflections with a double goal: to bear witness and to remain a human being. "Ales Steger, Author of Above the Sky Beneath the Earth "What sustains the narrator-protagonist of this beautiful and compelling memoir of our very own plague year is his passionate, full-bodied immersion in culture. "Ranjit Hoskote, Author of The Atlas of Beliefs
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a poet, writer, and political science scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Looking for the Nation: Towards Another Idea of India (Speaking Tiger, 2018) and a collection of poetry, Ghalib' s Tomb and Other Poems (The London Magazine, 2013). He frequently writes for The Wire, and has contributed to The New York Times, Al-Jazeera, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Outlook, among other publications. His poetry has appeared in Rattle, World Literature Today, Acumen, The Fortnightly Review, among others. He has taught lyric poetry and literary journalism at Ambedkar University, New Delhi.
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ISBN-13: 9781909394759
Published: 16 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Headpress
Publisher: Headpress
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 200

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