 @Patralekha2011 পত্রলেখা চ্যাটার্জী Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Re-reading Ambedkar’s ‘Annihilation of Caste.’ Am convinced that if every Indian read this in school,college, India would be dramatically different. India’s politicians know this.That’s why school curriculum focuses on Ambedkar and The Constitution,underplays his writing on caste

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Correct me if i am wrong, as far as I know nothing happened to critics who savaged Uwe Boll's cinematic approach to Auschwitz and Vaclav Marhoul’s grim and violent adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel The Painted Bird. Can there be one way of telling a story? https://t.co/Ei2YPUcwMm

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My hunch - from now on,one set of folks will b tasked to talk abt democracy,soft power, the ‘good stuff’ in selected public fora, including abroad. Domestically, another set of people will be following another script. It’s like a play. Which part you get depends on the director.

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Ha, ha. As Milan Kundera said ‘la vie est ailleurs.’ Life is elsewhere. There is a lot of myth-making about ‘abroad’ and it works because the vast majority hasn’t been ‘there’ or really lived there in the sense of being integrated. It boils down to which filter and lens you use. https://t.co/lFrINvFjSs

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Learnt a new term ‘precariat’ while reading @BShrayana’s fascinating book. Planning to read Guy Standing’s book on the precariat. Standing is the man who coined the term for the new underclass. Extremely relevant in India/much of the developing world and now also the rich world

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Anyone remembers reading Death by Leisure by Chris Ayres? Or Reporting for Cowards? Miss that sensibility at a time when people are describing their good life or their bouts of heroism with monotonous regularity and zero wit and irony.

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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable — Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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Reading Oscar Wilde to get over writer's block and all the turbulence around. Wish he was alive and in a country which would let him be himself. "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."( Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest)

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Reading Oscar Wilde to get over writer's block and all the turbulence around. Wish he was alive and in a country which would let him be himself. "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."( Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest)

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Without them being platformed. Sometimes you can make a mistake but so far I have been right I think. I am also re-reading classics like The Diary of a Young Girl after visiting Anne Frank’s house.

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