{"id":2350,"date":"2017-04-28T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/githahariharan.com\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2026-03-07T06:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:51:52","slug":"the-view-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githahariharan.com\/?p=2350","title":{"rendered":"The View from Here"},"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;2355&#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_1765539799152{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=2352\">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\/s?k=the+view+from+here+githa+hariharan&amp;crid=1UOI5XDIUBL3F&amp;sprefix=The+View+from+here+%2Caps%2C351&amp;ref=nb_sb_ss_mvt-t11-ranker_3_19\" 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;2355&#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_1765539786999{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=2352\">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\/s?k=the+view+from+here+githa+hariharan&amp;crid=1UOI5XDIUBL3F&amp;sprefix=The+View+from+here+%2Caps%2C351&amp;ref=nb_sb_ss_mvt-t11-ranker_3_19\" 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_1765539924990{margin-bottom: 42px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"book-title\">The View from Here<\/h1>\n<p>Stories and Poems of Many Indias<br \/>\nEdited by Githa Hariharan and K. Satchidanandan[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cThe erudite Kannada scholar and critic D.R. Nagaraj wrote, \u2018To read fiction is to know the fate of a society through its metaphors&#8230;\u2019 The stories we share in this collection, most through the gift of translation, live through their metaphors; the metaphors the writers and translators hold in their hands like blessings\u2014or timely curses\u2026\u201d<\/h3>\n<div class=\"quote-author\">Githa Hariharan, from her Introduction, \u201cAt the Pace of a Thousand Storms\u201d<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cCan poetry be political? The poems in this anthology tell us without doubt or apprehension: \u2018Yes, poetically political if not politically political.\u2019 Politics and poetry, in their real spirit, are two ways of telling the truth, and have been engaged\u2014and continue to engage\u2014in an endless conversation.\u201d<\/h3>\n<div class=\"quote-author\">K. Satchidanandan, from his Introduction, \u201cPoetically Political\u201d<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>During the seven years of its existence, from 2015 to 2022, the multilingual journal of culture Guftugu resolutely asserted India&#8217;s diversity against the attempt to force fit the country into a single mould. Selected from the twenty-two published issues of Guftugu, The View from Here arms us with prose and verse that bear powerful witness to the many Indias, past and present. Twenty stunning stories and more than fifty memorable poems are, together, unflinching in their insistence on diversity, dissent and, most of all, equality. <\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;from-reviews&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><em>From<\/em> Reviews<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;from-reviews&#8221;]&#8221;&#8230;a resolute literary assertion against uniformity. Bringing together twenty stories and over fifty poems selected from the journal\u2019s seven-year run (2015\u20132022), the collection offers a wide-angled view of India as it is lived, contested, and imagined\u2014across languages, regions, and social locations. Refusing a singular narrative of the nation, it insists instead on plurality as both cultural fact and ethical necessity&#8230;<br \/>\nOne of the anthology\u2019s most striking features is its commitment to marginal perspectives. Minority voices, women\u2019s experiences, and regional sensibilities are not framed as supplements to a mainstream narrative but as central to understanding the nation itself. Much of this writing reaches the reader through translation, which the collection treats not as a technical necessity but as a moral act. 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