Shadow Lines by Nicholas Royle review – buried treasure between the pages
The author’s avid hunt for notes and ephemera secreted in secondhand editions is warm-hearted and infectiously funny
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The author’s avid hunt for notes and ephemera secreted in secondhand editions is warm-hearted and infectiously funny
Presenting Chowdhury as one of the flag-bearers of the mid-20th century Indian modernism, the show attempts to trace how the artist has been willing to encounter the signs of human angst from his early works.
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Why is he still so intrigued by opium? ‘The plant has consistently out-thought, out-manoeuvred us,’ he says. ‘It's still playing a role in how history unfolds.’
The Padma Shri and Jnanpith Awardee novelist on his latest non-fiction book 'Smoke and Ashes', whose foundation was laid with the research for 'Ibis Trilogy', the far-reaching effects of opium trade and humankind's greatest challenges today.