Doab Dil
Author | : Sarnath Banerjee |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789353053215 |
ISBN-13 | : 9353053218 |
Rating | : 4/5 (218 Downloads) |
Download or read book Doab Dil written by Sarnath Banerjee and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.