Agree, 100%.

Dominic Green's review of 'Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life' is splendid, as is Tunku Varadarajan's moving essay on 'Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries' by Sumana Roy.

A truly magnificent issue of WSJ Books Section.

Kudos galore!

সামিম আকতার শেখ এর সঙ্গে আমার আলাপ ফেসবুকে। তার আঁকা গ্রামের বাজারের ছবি দেখে আমি মুগ্ধ হই I সামিম কে অনুরোধ করি গ্রামের হাট নিয়ে লিখতে ও ছবি আঁকতে l সামিম সেটা খুব সুন্দর ভাবে করেছে I Sumana Roy এবং আমি সামিম এর কাছে কৃতজ্ঞ -

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I'm very grateful for your responses to the first review of PROVINCIALS in the Wall Street Journal. Many of you have asked about the Indian edition.

PROVINCIALS will be published in India by Aleph Book Company and will be out on the 1st of May. Here is the cover.

Thank you, again.

Wall, Santiniketan

(The wall of a shop advertising what it sells. The shop was closed.)

December 2023

As essential as the glasses and almost as cheap

Would like to add Sumana Roy and her excellent words, in her latest works How I became a Tree and Provincials.

Utterly splendid read. A treat.

The first review of PROVINCIALS -- by Tunku Varadarajan -- is out in the Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal
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The review can be read here:
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Yale Univ Press

We've always said that the only way the #Himalayan region is looked at is through the eyes of extraction. The guise of #development , #climatechange , #Migration & borderland is used to keep the people away from the dark reality of the politics of resource control.... rational_geographic

Stunning essay about the language of women, how it is used and who listens to them...

In an original piece with Yale Univ Press, author of Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries Sumana Roy asks, 'Why not the provincial?' 

Read the full piece at yalebooks.com!
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‘Provincials’ Review: Bards in the Boondocks - WSJ wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

A very short essay I wrote about how my first understanding of provinciality might have come from a child's understanding of the behaviour of light and the plant world -- on the Yale University Press website:

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Yale Univ Press

Tunku Varadarajan Michael Dwyer Sumana Roy WSJ Books Section Not to mention Catullus (from Verona), Virgil (from Mantua) and Horace (from Basilicata). Growing up in the capital leaves one too jaded to be a genius.

Lovely review ... wonder if the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen would also be deemed 'Provincials' by Sumana Roy?

'Writers and #poets from unfashionable towns and the seemingly stagnant countryside have created monuments of literature'-- #TunkuVaradarajan (Tunku Varadarajan) on #SumanaRoy 's book on literature written outside cities of the literary gatekeepers:

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Writers and poets from unfashionable towns and the seemingly stagnant countryside have created monuments of literature.
I review 'Provincials,' by Sumana Roy
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No one has tried this hard to woo me.

(If they weren't so cheesy, maybe I'd have collected some of these into a found poem.)

TOMORROW: Join us!

WHAT: A beautiful lunchtime chat between Sumana Roy & Mary Evelyn Tucker on the intersection of ritual and nature

WHEN: 12 p.m. ET

HOW: There's still time to register to attend this free event at the link below!
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Enjoying Sumana Roy ‘s reflections on the hidden lives of plants and trees? You might like also this post we ran a few years ago, drawn from her book 'How I Became a Tree' from Yale Univ Press

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