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Description:Poignant, witty, melancholic and intense, this is the best of four decades of prose from one of Indias masters of the written word. The worst thing about being a human being is being a human being. I wish I was bird, as the railway clerk in Nissim Ezekiels poem says. But if I were, the worst thing about being a bird would be being a bird. Welcome to the world of Adil Jussawalla, poet, columnist, critic. The essays and entertainments collected in this volume take in everything from language to poetry, from ethics to model aeroplanes, from death and addiction to travel and alienation. In these pages, you will meet poets, novelists, construction labourers, gamblers and most startlingly, Jussawalla himself as a boy who lost himself at the movies, as the acned adolescent on a ship watching a storm at sea, as the flaneur of South Mumbai.These essays provide insightful commentary on the cultural shifts and political changes over the past forty years.Written by one of the masters of the written word, Adil Jussawalla.Selected and edited by award-winning author Jerry Pinto.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Maps For A Mortal Moon. To get started finding Maps For A Mortal Moon, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 360

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Release: 2014

ISBN: 9382277676

Description: Poignant, witty, melancholic and intense, this is the best of four decades of prose from one of Indias masters of the written word. The worst thing about being a human being is being a human being. I wish I was bird, as the railway clerk in Nissim Ezekiels poem says. But if I were, the worst thing about being a bird would be being a bird. Welcome to the world of Adil Jussawalla, poet, columnist, critic. The essays and entertainments collected in this volume take in everything from language to poetry, from ethics to model aeroplanes, from death and addiction to travel and alienation. In these pages, you will meet poets, novelists, construction labourers, gamblers and most startlingly, Jussawalla himself as a boy who lost himself at the movies, as the acned adolescent on a ship watching a storm at sea, as the flaneur of South Mumbai.These essays provide insightful commentary on the cultural shifts and political changes over the past forty years.Written by one of the masters of the written word, Adil Jussawalla.Selected and edited by award-winning author Jerry Pinto.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Maps For A Mortal Moon. To get started finding Maps For A Mortal Moon, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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