Why was the appreciation of gardens considered a symbol of Victorian aristocracy? Why do the Japanese find it easy to power-nap in public spaces? Why did Charles Baudelaire ascribe Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s restless nocturnal wanderings to a pathological dread of returning home? Why is a tense Gurgaon CEO hitting anxiety-laden golf balls into the night? Why was an obscure ninth-century Arab scholar’s library confiscated? And what do any of these mean for the average person immersed in the ‘daily decathlon’ of life?
Employing a philosopher’s mind and an artist’s eye, Banerjee takes us to still places in a moving world, the place where two rivers (do ab) meet and forests write themselves into history.
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Oct/2018
ISBN: 9780670091881
Length : 184 Pages
MRP : ₹799.00
In his book, Doab Dil – employing a philosopher’s mind and an artist’s eye – Sarnath Banerjee takes us to still places in a moving world, the place where two rivers (do ab) meet and forests write themselves into history. Here are some of the illustrations from the book – in their raw form! From […]
