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Small Orange Flags: On Living During a 'State of Emergency'

 
Amit Chaudhuri (Author)
Synopsis This is a compilation of six essays and a poem by novelist Amit Chaudhuri--written as an urgent response to what he feels is an ongoing state of emergency-followed by a conversation which takes up and further develops the same issues and concerns. 'Small Orange Flags' was written in early 1993 when he came back to India from Oxford, and encountered a changed world post the Babri Masjid demolition. In it lie the seeds of the idea for his novel Freedom Song. 'Living in the Mohulla', written after September 11, looks at human bonds across communities; in 'Thoughts in a Temple' he meditates on Hindutva and the changing face of Hinduism; 'Neighbours and Strife' begins with an encounter in a Greyhound bus, leading on to thoughts on minority activism in civil society; 'Sticks, Stones and Names' has at its core a poem layered with disturbing images of war; and in 'A Walk Around Schoeneberg' he begins to see how silence overlays a disturbing history of erasure of the Jews. This volume lays bare disturbing and very urgent questions about how people live together despite difference.
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About the author

Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri is one of the leading novelists of his generation. He is the author of four novels, a book of short stories, and a critical study of the poetry of D.H. Lawrence. He has also edited the Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, and has been the recipient of several national and international awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Sahitya Akademi Award. He is a critically acclaimed singer in the Hindustani classical tradition.

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Title Small Orange Flags: On Living During a 'State of Emergency'
Format Softcover
Date published: 01.01.2004
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 8170462460
length vi+79p.
Subjects History