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In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand Paper cranes will have their wishes realized. But folding cranes, and the meditative, solemn care that it involves, has come to mean more than just an exercise in wish making. Origami cranes have become a symbol of renewal, atonement, and warning. Their symbolism may have emerged out of Japanese particular mythology and history, but they do not belong to any one nation. The crane is a migratory bird that crosses borders and makes its home with scant regard to the blood-soaked lines that humans have drawn on maps. This anthology uses origami cranes as a way for some of India’s best-known writers, poets, and artists to form a shared civic space for a conversation about the fault lines in India at a time of Darkness. The twenty-three pieces collected here encompass reportage, stories, poems, memoir, and polemic—the kind of complex and enriching diversity that India demands and deserves. The paper crane becomes a motif of connection, beauty, and reclamation in an otherwise degraded country, enabling those who fight with words to become the best Army they can be.
Publisher : Seagull Books (8 December 2020); Seagull Books
Language : English
Paperback : 197 pages
ISBN-10 : 085742744X
ISBN-13 : 978-0857427441
Item Weight : 230 g
Dimensions : 12.7 x 1.52 x 20.32 cm
Country of Origin : India
Net Quantity : 230.00 Grams
Importer : Seagull Books
Packer : AAJ Enterprises
Generic Name : Book
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A beautiful collection of essays and poems all trying to capture the spirit of a unified plurality in a world that increasingly is full of forces seeking power through divisiveness. All tied together by the image of the folded paper crane.Some of these stories made me smile, others brought me close to tears, but they all carry the hope of finding again that lost spirit of being able to accept each other’s differences, embracing the often multilayered identities within ourselves, while also finding common ground as human beings.I’m planing to buy a few more copies to gift to people.