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Federico or a manifesto on the ethics of description
If I speak – If in this minute, I prise open the spines of old texts and extract the root Mirror it ten-fold to consequence and stymy it in time – have I caught history? Like one might catch a cold? Is it upon me, the malign epic, the stentorian saga? By my naming do…
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A Wayanad Interlude
“Bahugana said – ‘Don’t eat the salt of anyone, you will be beholden for life.’” “Nature is diverse, of course we need to be too.” “They call us the B-team of the Forest Department.” With humour and passion, the members of the Wayanad Prakrithi Samrakshana Samithi (WPSS) shared the history of their decades-old participation in…
