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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalDevangana could do anything in the whole world but then she met a young boy, who hated loud music, so she went ahead and chose to study autism, and the neuroscience of the intellectually disabled to be able to go back, fix his world. Life turned her into a dreamer, a writer when she was very young, she spent her growing up years in cities and countries across the world exploring the world. Three years or so ago, home called her back again, to India, to build a new life, right here, in the country she left eons ago because the body is a machine, it does what it does. This book is Devangana’s Read More...
Devangana could do anything in the whole world but then she met a young boy, who hated loud music, so she went ahead and chose to study autism, and the neuroscience of the intellectually disabled to be able to go back, fix his world. Life turned her into a dreamer, a writer when she was very young, she spent her growing up years in cities and countries across the world exploring the world. Three years or so ago, home called her back again, to India, to build a new life, right here, in the country she left eons ago because the body is a machine, it does what it does. This book is Devangana’s labor of love, loss, history, politics, capitalism, marriage, life, everything, and then nothing at all, it’s just about the here and now, about dailiness, about this moment in life, your middle age, where everything feels young again but then so old. She now lives in Bombay with her cat and runs a little incubator for kids on the spectrum of autism called Brain Bristle
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26, Kamala Nehru Ridge, Civil Lines, Delhi is my first verse novel. It is set in pre-independence India, beginning in 1937 from a time before partition was officially announced to 1947, to a time when the face of Delhi had drastically changed its demography and lines of divide. Each verse is written for Zara, a young muslim girl, born in a small affluen muslim Mallik family, her dreams, her devotion, her hopes, her marriage to a Hindu man, her journey to kee
26, Kamala Nehru Ridge, Civil Lines, Delhi is my first verse novel. It is set in pre-independence India, beginning in 1937 from a time before partition was officially announced to 1947, to a time when the face of Delhi had drastically changed its demography and lines of divide. Each verse is written for Zara, a young muslim girl, born in a small affluen muslim Mallik family, her dreams, her devotion, her hopes, her marriage to a Hindu man, her journey to keep her family where they belonged, Civil Lines, Delhi, India. Despite its crumble and fall. Over the 40 verses of this book, I've tried to use art, poetry, verse and dance to transport you through politically, culturally and economically changing tides and times in India and beyond.
For the last three years, I’ve lived in the bodies and minds of everyone I’ve ever known and never known to understand history, culture, racism, capitalism, science, art, and everything that makes our world and everything that breaks our world. Nothing in my life has been as dark as writing this book. In giving it out to the world will be my healing and joy. Live long, Desierto Florido, may you reach the hearts of everyone who has needed you but never know
For the last three years, I’ve lived in the bodies and minds of everyone I’ve ever known and never known to understand history, culture, racism, capitalism, science, art, and everything that makes our world and everything that breaks our world. Nothing in my life has been as dark as writing this book. In giving it out to the world will be my healing and joy. Live long, Desierto Florido, may you reach the hearts of everyone who has needed you but never known.
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