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January 2021 could be one of the most stunning months as one decade ends and a new one begins. Just as we thought that with the approval of new vaccines, the pandemic would be finally brought under control, the occupation of the US Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters signalled a turning point in US politics.
The US presidential election had told us already that the US was deeply divided, but the violent assault on the temple of American democracy on Jan 6 suggested that American politics has entered a period that the Chinese recognise as a cultural revolution. Every country goes through a period when well-held beliefs in stability and order are swept away by a new generation who believe in change by different means, including the use of violence.
Once More into the Past (Daily Star Books, 2020)
This was a bad year in so many ways but it was a good year to catch up on reading. One book which bowled me over and which I realise I should have read a long time back is Akhteruzzaman Elias s masterpiece,
Khowabnama (Mawla Brothers, 1996). I believe it s being translated now; if it finds a good international publisher it will surely be on the shelves with the greatest novels of the last century and place Elias on the shelves with Hardy and Faulkner as a literary chronicler who made a whole region come alive at a certain moment of history. Another novel that overwhelmed me in the Covid-19 year but had been gathering dust in my shelves earlier is Jose Saramagao s