Review of 'The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture during Lockdown' by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
This seems like a good time to read Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s book, The Town Slowly Empties, as the pandemic-related events of 2020 seem to repeat themselves in 2021, only in a scarier form. Bhattacharjee’s memoir harks back to the beginning of 2020, when life as we knew it suddenly changed. Written in the form of a journal, it begins on March 23, the day the national lockdown started, and continues until April 14, when the lockdown was extended till May. The intimate and the unantici...
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