A slowish month. Problems to fix. But got a couple of new experiences.
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Monthly Review: February 2023
Author: Amita Basu
I'm a writer based in Bangalore, India.
NOTE: This is mostly a summary, not a review.. I’m trying to resume reading nonfiction occasionally to keep sharp. *** Major theorists mentioned, besides Kant: John Balliie, a physician who wrote an essay about aesthetics;Â Alexander Baumgarten; Edmunde Burke; Joseph Addison; Seneca; Longinus. The sublime is a perspective of nature whose contemplation inspires the human mind […]
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Afterwards
When you get what you want…
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The Andromeda Strain (1969)
An exciting premise, with clear and detailed accounts of (what was then) cutting-edge science, but the action lags, and ultimately everything in the novel feels pointless.
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DIY
Image credit Bottomless masala chai with flaked almonds kept the grownups warm. We ran around playing Lock-and-Key. Dinner was at twilight: slow-cooked mustard greens, butter chicken, paranthas swimming in ghee, and daal so thick the ladle chopped it up like a mountainside. In winter in Ropar, we dined in our coats. The steam from the […]
What I read and wrote and published and how I fared
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Night
Dark short story published in The Dalhousie Review (Summer 2022)
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The Revolutionaries
Alternative history. If the political-historical relations of two nations were reversed, would the characters of the nation’s peoples be reversed too?
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Re:Birth
A grieving mother has shut herself away from the world. Can she rediscover love and life?
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Courage Anniversary
Astrid has a dream. Pleo likes dreamers. What could go wrong? In this story written in 2020 I dip my toes back into magic realism.
Amita Basu 