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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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Orkyawaki, a Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm, a Tiny Bomb

I wanted to be the person who I suppose brought a scene alive that was drawn from real life, and that was journalistic in the sense. But I was dissatisfied with being an academic. So I wrote works of nonfiction. There's a husband of a fanatic who a foreigner carrying in the crook of his arm, a tiny bomb. And then I wrote a novel. Orkyawaki, which was about terrorism trials, basically, in New Jersey and New York of Dessis. Because 9-11 Kissat terror state, we emerge with global war on terror,. The challenge that fiction posed for me was, was that of invention, to, you know, to heal close to

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