Ep 288: Chandrahas Choudhury's Country of Literature
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Is the Audience Tyrannized You?
The novel is marginal in india for many reasons, one that we're not historicalla novel reading culture. Indian novels fom the last hundred years in a were very, very progressive. They began to enact stories about gender revolt ons and political revolutionsOne step ahead of society. Because a novel gives you that room. You can say things in a story that you can't do in real life. But because not ow people read them er the capacity of some great indian writers as thinkers,. they don't have common ground with each other. So these ideas are not circulated too well among educated conversation. I cannot counter the bicep-of-the-book theory at all levels
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