The world has seen the hideous visage of a pandemic. Among the many things the pandemic has exposed, the most critical one is the indigent state of our health system.
The daily wage labourers and migrant workers are definitely the worst hit amongst all. This should be a humanistic concern of the entire population and not just of the government.
I have recently watched A. R. Rahman’s ‘One Heart’. Dubbed as the first concert film from India, ‘One Heart’ is an anthology of Rahman’s best stage performances across the world.
The orientation of career or rather choice of career is just like sexual orientation. Some are loved, praised and accepted; while others are avoided and not even talked about.
The daily wage labourers and migrant workers are definitely the worst hit amongst all. This should be a humanistic concern of the entire population and not just of the government.
Well before it became the repetitive trend, there were such gold mines of goose-bump worthy plots that cannot be excluded from the list of a booklover.
The sudden pandemic has brought into light different sort of crisis in the society. One of the most vital ones is regarding depression and mental health.
Originally written in Assamese and published in 2009 as Thengphakhri Tehsildaror Tamor Tarowal by the renowned writer from Assam, Indira Goswami, also known as Mamoni Raisom Goswami and later translated to English by Aruni Kashyap, The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar explores themes of mimicry, ambivalence, hybridity as well as subtle feminism and recreating the history of India’s freedom struggle.
What is perhaps even more interesting is that Arun Joshi could beautifully portray this friction so acutely in his novel The Strange Case of Billy Biswasback in 1971, when it got published.
