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The Town Slowly Empties is a mind-travel under the shadow of a global pandemic. It offers a lived perspective on an extraordinary time through art, cinema, literature and politics. This book is a compelling account of the human condition that soars high above the empty streets.

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Captivating observations, piercing personal memories and essayistic reflections with a double goal: to bear witness and to remain a human being. Ales Steger, author of Above the Sky Beneath the Earth Lyrical and evocative, a pandemic journal with a difference. Siddhartha Deb, author of The Beautiful and the Damned The Town Slowly Empties enthralled me. The text seemed to open like a flower and I found myself reading faster and faster as I went through. It's a remarkable book, combining poetry and learning and politics and meditation (and wonderful food). Sasha Dugdale, author of Deformations, from her Foreword

The Town Slowly Empties retains a raw and authentic tone, describing an experience from the inside, unmediated by time and memory. -- Sasha Dugdale (from the Foreword), Author of Deformations This is a remarkable work in many ways - in terms of the sheer quality of the writing... The cultural criticism is breathtaking. -- Keshava Guha, Accidental Magic What sustains the narrator-protagonist of this beautiful and compelling memoir of our very own plague year is his passionate, full-bodied immersion in culture. -- Ranjit Hoskote, The Atlas of Beliefs Captivating observations, piercing personal memories and essayistic reflections with a double goal: to bear witness and to remain a human being. --Ales Steger, Above the Sky Beneath the Earth In this book of quiet meditations, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee shows the unique value of sensible, informed and honest thought... The greatest contribution is the author's sheer calm of mind in a world driven mad by anxiety. --Peter Riley, The Fortnightly Review Lyrical and evocative, a pandemic journal with a difference. --Siddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned

Captivating observations, piercing personal memories and essayistic reflections with a double goal: to bear witness and to remain a human being. -- Ales Steger, Above the Sky Beneath the Earth Lyrical and evocative, a pandemic journal with a difference. -- Siddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned This enthralled me. The text seemed to open like a flower and I found myself reading faster and faster as I went through. It's a remarkable book, combining poetry and learning and politics and meditation (and wonderful food). -- Sasha Dugdale, Deformations, from her Foreword

Captivating observations, piercing personal memories and essayistic reflections with a double goal: to bear witness and to remain a human being. -- Ales Steger, Above the Sky Beneath the Earth Lyrical and evocative, a pandemic journal with a difference. -- Siddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned

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Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a poet, writer, and political science scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Looking for the Nation: Towards Another Idea of India (2018) and a collection of poetry, Ghalib's Tomb (2013). He writes for The Wire, and has contributed to The New York Times, Al-Jazeera, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Outlook, among others. He has taught lyric poetry and literary journalism at Ambedkar University, New Delhi.

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