Revisiting
a review written for 'Frontline' magazine of the English
version of Ashok Mitra's Bengali memoirs, 'Apila Chapila',
published in 2007. "The impression on reading this
book is not one of a difficult man, rather of an incurable
romantic. It is a book full of people, full of little
stories about them and full of the emotion that only
caring deeply about people can bring. So this idiosyncratic
memoir is in some ways a love poem to many of the people
he has ever known."
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This
article was originally published in The Wire May 1,
2018.
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