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Bookshelf | New Books on the Shelves

3 weeks ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vaishna Roy |Anjum Hasan |Neha Sinha

Dream StateEric PuchnerSceptreRs. 999Recommended by Oprah’s Book Club, this novel is described as “at once an elegy to the endangered West, a study of the unholy catastrophe of marriage and a tender ode to the enduring beauty of friendship”. ___What’s Your Price, Mr. Shivaswamy? M.R. DattathriVikingRs.599Both a gentle satire and a moving human drama, this novel set in contemporary Bengaluru has been translated from Kannada by the author, M.R. Dattathri.
The Age of Monsters: Amitav Ghosh’s Wild Fictions Unravels the Intersections of Migration, Climate Crisis, and Colonial Legacy

3 weeks ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh |Neha Sinha |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy

Amitav Ghosh’s Wild Fictions starts with a deceptively novel-like tone. We meet Bangladeshi migrants in Italy; Ghosh is interviewing them there. The chapter ebbs and flows in characteristic Ghosh style: he writes about people whose personal stories, grief, and disappointments wash over you. He describes Palash, a Bangladeshi migrant who is beaten up by a Kalashnikov-carrying Libyan gang (Libya being a stopover for entry into Italy).
Look at animal movement with more generosity

Jan 18, 2025 | livemint.com | Neha Sinha

As I watch the flycatcher, I also hear squeaks from the trees, high and insect-like. The narrow leaves of a jamun tree move, and I am able to see a round, greenish-brown body hurtling through the leaves, jumping from branch to branch with a feeling of urgency. Small birds have a speed that seems to say they don’t have much time; they must barrel through a world bristling with threats. The bird is a Hume’s warbler, migrating from Central Asia ranges even beyond the Himalaya.
Look at animal movement with more generosity

Jan 18, 2025 | flipboard.com | Neha Sinha

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Age is a thing to witness and cherish

Dec 21, 2024 | newindianexpress.com | Neha Sinha

The rhododendron stretched its arms, its boughs heavy with leaves. At its base, shrubs pushed forward. It was a massive tree, at the crest of a hill, looking like a chandelier in its complexity. At a certain age, things in the natural world start looking a little different. A mature, windswept oak begins to look like a mountain—its trunk whorled with lichen, matted with moss, and transcribed with insects and experience, like a slope with a cave painting.
Our messy association with elephants

Nov 22, 2024 | htsyndication.com | Neha Sinha

New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- The fog was burning off the top of the trees as the sun rose in Corbett Tiger Reserve. In front of us lay one of the most exciting things in the world: a path winding through the forest in soft light. We were in elephant country, and we kept the pace of our vehicle slow and measured, a way to ensure we didn't surprise any animals. As we edged forward, a series of sounds broke through the bushes. Little snorts-the expressive expelling of air through long noses.
In this murky air, sing a song of resilience

Nov 16, 2024 | newindianexpress.com | Neha Sinha

Through the swathe of smog, I was looking for life. Like a cement block, a pall of pollution has descended over many cities in India, unmoving. It shouldn’t be surprising—each year before winter, the air becomes poisonous. We are living through so much environmental degradation that talking about it seems to be fatalistic, and ignoring it seems foolish. The word ‘solastalgia’ signifies a homesickness for the lost environment or landscape we loved.
Blind men ignorant about the ways of the elephant

Nov 15, 2024 | hindustantimes.com | Neha Sinha

An old Indian parable describes the experience of blind men who touched an elephant for the first time. One man caught the trunk and described a snake, the second touched the ears and described a fan, another touched the legs and described a tree trunk, the one who touched a body described a wall and the tail was described as a rope by the last man. The adage holds true even today as we are still perceiving elephants in parts but not the whole.
Blind men ignorant about the ways of the elephant

Nov 15, 2024 | htsyndication.com | Neha Sinha

Posted On: 2024-11-15 Posted By: Neha Sinha Business & Finance Health & Lifestyle Travel Education Hindustan Times India, Nov. 15 -- An old Indian parable describes the experience of blind men who touched an elephant for the first time.
Review of Ramachandra Guha’s Speaking With Nature: Under the banyan tree

Nov 14, 2024 | thehindu.com | Neha Sinha

Environmentalism isn’t just an idea; it’s also a verb. In his latest book, Speaking With Nature, historian Ramachandra Guha draws portraits of ten people who he credits with laying the foundation of environmentalism in India. One would expect a list of tribal leaders, hunters-turned-conservationists, (‘repentant butchers’ as the author remarks in one section of the book), those who have spearheaded environmental movements, or professional conservationists and administrators.