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Ep 265: Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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'Kassa Is a Feeling'

I was listening to a coil Garmika Dindhah and thought if I write a few lines, kassa. I wrote it and immediately mailed it to Kushwan Singh who said very nice very evocative this was the word he used continue writing or something like that. So those were the great influences now at that time. Later you know with age and with back after publishing writers became also your friends so then they became a different kind of circle. You have to become a bit more theoretical and sophisticated Susan Sontag. Padme people like J.M. could see a journalistic for journalistic sort of thing John Didion or for a slightly more psycho analytic take on the self

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