Atulya Sinha suggested this book. He is the curator of the event. He has decided that he will share an excerpt from the book. The members have chosen a Chapter each which they will read from and discuss.
We can have a general adda over coffee. For starters, a short excerpt
The following extract demonstrates much of the above in the chapter, ‘Āmrā Ké? Where, What, Why’, in lush gunfire prose:“We are garrulous; argumentative — and liberal, conservative and moderate, often in the course of the same argument — opinionated; often contemptuous of those not-Bengali; eager to be appreciated by those not-Bengali; blithely unmindful of such hypocrisy; intensely curious — not merely curiosities; feminists; chauvinists; misogynists; ultra-leftist; leftist; ‘rightist’; ultra rightist; haters of colonialists; lovers of colonialism bashers; lovers of colonialists..
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