{"product_id":"encounter-with-kiran-fragments-from-a-relationship-9789354471995","title":"Encounter with Kiran Fragments from a Relationship","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen they first met in 2002 at a literary festival, Nayantara Sahgal was a veteran\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof more than twenty books; her debut work, the memoir Prison and Chocolate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCake, was published in 1954. Kiran Nagarkar had published his first novel, Saat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSakkam Trechalis, in Marathi in 1974, and his first work in English, Ravan and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEddie, twenty years later. Sparks didn't fly at that first encounter. It was only in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2014, when Nagarkar wrote to Sahgal about Mistaken Identity and other books of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehers that he had read, that she invited him to lunch at her home in Dehradun-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand thus began a correspondence that lasted until Nagarkar's death in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs they discussed each other's work, their almost daily exchange of emails grew\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto a sharing of concerns: Nagarkar's chronic ill-health, Sahgal's grief on the death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof her 23-year-old grandson, Zum, and through it all, their distress at the rise of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eviolent majoritarianism and the loss of democratic ideals in their beloved country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmails don't, observes Sahgal, 'have the prestige of letters, but they have\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean immediacy that letters can't have. Our mails made for the sense of a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epresence nearby with whom it became natural to share views, feelings and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edaily doings'. United by their love of books and their politics, separated by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edistance-Nagarkar in Mumbai, Sahgal in Dehradun-this immediacy was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe key to a friendship that remains an enigma to an outsider. For Sahgal, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eemotions appear to be those of a friend, albeit a close and loving one. For\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNagarkar, 72 to Sahgal's 87 when the correspondence began, the feelings run\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeeper; he misses her constantly, and proclaims his love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of mails is a rare and poignant document, an intimate glimpse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto the life and times of two extraordinary writers who drew strength from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeach other in their personal and political battles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789354471995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.38d","brand":"Nayantara Sahgal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41352435466421,"sku":"9789354471995","price":27.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7365d954-9599-4148-9b62-e173eee4ca18.jpg?v=1637033729","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/encounter-with-kiran-fragments-from-a-relationship-9789354471995","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}