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Bangalore Blues

Book Launch and Discussion
Kirtana Kumar
Books | Reading

An afternoon with the author of Bangalore Blues, Kirtana Kumar, in conversation with fellow author, Nandita Bose. Kirtana will be reading sections of Bangalore Blues and the two will yarn about Bangalore and literature, and Bangalore in literature. This will be followed by book signings.
The book covers a swathe of time, beginning in the 1960’s and ending in a post pandemic dystopia. Bangalore cantonment is the bell jar containing l'esprit du temps, a strange and colourful biome revealing a syncretic way of life and a wide palette of characters such as Mac the Knife, Mrs Gajapati Raju, the Vedamanikam Twins, Money-Pal, Jabeen Tehseena Noor Mirza, Ravi Kumar S and Annabel, among others, who through their voices and their choices describe a unique cosmopolitanism. These are the histories you'd have to look for in the pages of old diaries, handwritten recipes or love-letters, messages lying forgotten in vaults and notes in the margins of the Gazetteer. What’s true and what’s not is up for grabs. 
33 stories of a small-town cantonment on the cusp of exploding into a booming metropolis. And an essay that brings it all into perspective.
 


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