{"id":2224,"date":"2017-04-29T04:58:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T04:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/githahariharan.com\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:00:36","slug":"this-too-is-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githahariharan.com\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"This Too Is India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;4\/12&#8243; offset=&#8221;vc_hidden-lg&#8221;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1494861481846{background-color: #ebe5e5 !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2227&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_shadow&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727677099395{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<a class=\"read-extract-link\" href=\"https:\/\/githahariharan.com\/?p=2234\">Read an extract<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<a class=\"buy-button mobile-buy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/dp\/9360452920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;4\/12&#8243; offset=&#8221;vc_hidden-xs&#8221;][vc_row_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1494674285282{padding-left: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1495458619745{margin-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Books<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1494861638331{padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1494861481846{background-color: #ebe5e5 !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2227&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_shadow&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727677112084{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<a class=\"read-extract-link\" href=\"https:\/\/githahariharan.com\/?p=2234\">Read an extract<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<a class=\"buy-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/dp\/9360452920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1494674285282{padding-left: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1495458605018{margin-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>View more books<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu=&#8221;6&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;7\/12&#8243; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-offset-1 vc_col-md-offset-1 vc_col-sm-offset-1&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1498474199249{padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727677195225{margin-bottom: 42px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"book-title\">This Too Is India<\/h1>\n<p>Conversations on Diversity and Dissent<br \/>\nEdited by Githa Hariharan[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Each encounter opened a door, or at least a window. It invited me to talk more, read more, write more, think more and go in search of more people with more knowledge. I was no longer a mere writer. Once you are part of a broad front which involves conversations with writers, translators, artists, filmmakers, theatre persons, musicians and dancers, teachers, activists, all from a place like India, how do you go back to being just a writer?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"quote-author\">From the Introduction by Githa Hariharan<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"><strong>How do we unravel the complexities of India? And how do we put back together the varied pieces of its mosaic?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Through questions, debate, dialogue, conversation\u2014conversations and more conversations with and among as many people as possible. People who write prose and poetry and drama, translate, sing, teach, act, dance, or go out into the world to change it for the\u00a0better.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twenty figures from almost as many walks of life join Githa Hariharan to talk about matters of culture, democracy and dissent as they are lived in practice. Drawing from deep wells of experience, each conversation also affirms values essential to both cultural life and democratic politics: reason and dissent, inclusion and diversity, ethical consideration and the secular imagination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This Too Is India<\/em>\u00a0brings together a galaxy of languages, texts and ideas as rich and diverse as the country itself. 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