Amitav Ghosh’s latest takes the reader back to the year 1838 (no not literally), offering a glimpse of a diverse, tumultuous India composed of bullish aristocrats (no they’re not really bulls), mysterious lascars, and everyone (or everything) in between. The first part of a trilogy, the novel (set prior to the first opium war raged [...]
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2 October, 08
Greetings Earth Bags! at Manney’s on the Booksellers’ Diamond Jubilee
From (an extremely crowded) Manney’s Booksellers Shop on Moledina Road: Ecologist, architect and school-teacher Sourabh Phadke has written a bi-lingual booklet called ‘Earth Bags’ in English and ‘Mathi-Pothi‘ in Marathi, which is a manual in self-help consrtuction using ‘flexible form rammed earth.’ The booklet was released by city-based architect Rahul Rawat on the occassion of [...]
