In Lapus Lazuli, Yeats shows us how art offers us hope even at the darkest times. He wrote this on the eve of World War II.
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The Fine Balance between Hope and Despair
Mistry’s “Fine Balance,” which describes tyranny in India in 1975 and 1984, can be applied to DJT’s America in unsettling ways.
When Threatened, Power Elites Go Ballistic
To what extent will DJT and MAGA go to to maintain power? Mistry’s novel A Fine Balance shows the brutality elites are capable of when threatened.
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Caste in India and the U.S.
Reading Wilkerson’s “Caste” has me examining Indian lit describing the caste system there, including Mistry’s A Fine Balance and Roy’s God of Small Things.
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