Books

The demise of famous personalities is often a time of their reawakening. It is a time when their work comes alive again. It’s a time when your twitter feed is full of messages loaded with condolences and tributes and the fact that some of them are written so copiously, it makes it impossible to avoid luring into them. Mahasweta Devi has been one such personality, occupying a lot of space on social media and newspaper columns since her death a couple of days ago. Once I read memoirs on her by some prominent people, I started finding her and her work more and more interesting. One thing led to the other and I ended up spending my afternoon reading a book of short stories written by her.