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Review: 'The Town Slowly Empties' Mirrors Changing Realities of Our Modern Existence

Review: The Town Slowly Empties Mirrors Changing Realities of Our Modern Existence
On the pandemic and the lockdown, the book goes back and forth between our private and public affairs, the personal and the political, and tries to make sense of the self and the world that it occupies.
Representational image. A cobbler waits for customers at his roadside stall, during complete lockdown on weekends to curb COVID-19 spread, in Lucknow, Saturday, August 8, 2020. Photo: PTI
Inundated by the continuous waves of the (COVID-19) virus, the storm water drains of our everyday (normal) life seem clogged. Forced indoors by this series of major and minor lockdowns, many of us have been reduced to mere spectators of the world around us, a chasm of time (which we ignored before) has opened. The plague year(s), as we may soon end up calling it, has etched the rupture between the home and the world like never before. ....

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Review of 'The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture during Lockdown' by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

This seems like a good time to read Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s book,
The Town Slowly Empties, as the pandemic-related events of 2020 seem to repeat themselves in 2021, only in a scarier form. Bhattacharjee’s memoir harks back to the beginning of 2020, when life as we knew it suddenly changed.
Written in the form of a journal, it begins on March 23, the day the national lockdown started, and continues until April 14, when the lockdown was extended till May. The intimate and the unanticipated frame Bhattacharjee’s reflections. When life is “reduced to a few rooms” and our bodies “forced into confinement”, the mind becomes “free to soar.” As the machinery of life in capitalism comes to a halt, the sounds of industry and automation give way to the chirping of birds. Pollution levels reduce drastically. Lockdown, Bhattacharjee writes, “returned us to our lost childhood. to birds. to ourselves.” ....

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'We Must Think Beyond Reason': Lessons From 2020

We Must Think Beyond Reason : Lessons From 2020
Life since March 23, 2020 â the day lockdown was declared in India â was indoors. But another life, the life of the mind, was elsewhere. However, reason wonât help us understand this shift in our new condition.
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The year 2020 passed by like a ship in troubled waters. Time was slow, and the mind was full of anxiety. Life since March 23, 2020 â the day lockdown was declared in India â was indoors. But another life, the life of the mind, was elsewhere. Elsewhere was many places. It was the past one lived, now a cradle of memories. It was also the past of reading, and knowing the world. Elsewhere comprised of people in the world posting about their lives on social media. It was also about migrant workers walking home, some dying on the way due to hunger, or accident. ....

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With the horrors of the second wave, this Covid lockdown journal acquires a fresh poignancy

With the horrors of the second wave, this Covid lockdown journal acquires a fresh poignancy
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s ‘A Town Slowly Empties’ is a meditation on urban life during the pandemic.
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There is perhaps nothing more personal than the act of writing a journal. It is, after all, one of the few forms of without that don’t carry consequences, where one is not only vivacious and intensely humane but also honest about oneself and the world. But journals can also be something more: texts that offer relief not only to the one writing them but also to those reading the entries. ....

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