Prameela K
Published on: 2 January 2024, 07:54 am
The Leaflet presents to you a curated list of books from 2023, perhaps for 2024. Happy reading!
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Read Part 1 here.
A review of books read and enjoyed in the previous year is a nod to what books can do. Broaden the imagination, help one cope with difficult circumstances with humour, provide a new lens to view an old problem and give one a sense of continuity with a distant past.
Books can also build a sense of community with other cultures and civilisations and help you see that the stranger is not so strange after all.
They can also reverse a Gramscian dictum and be about cultivating the 'optimism of the intellect'.
Here is a list of 2023, perhaps for 2024.
China, Spain and the War: Essays and Writings, Jawaharlal Nehru
Most of these short essays were written just before the Second World War and in the early war years. They provide a perspective on those critical years, from the viewpoint of India as well as other colonised countries.
