{"id":350142,"date":"2024-09-16T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=350142"},"modified":"2024-09-16T06:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:27:37","slug":"rana-nayars-corona-chronicles-offers-reflection-and-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rana-nayars-corona-chronicles-offers-reflection-and-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Rana Nayar\u2019s Corona Chronicles offers reflection and release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the book \u2013 Corona Chronicles – An Intimate History of the Pandemic, author Rana  Nayar  has  recorded  every  possible aspect and all  possible dimensions to the corona pandemic. And he has done so in that free flowing way. An easy, absorbing read. Though the book is loaded with facts and  factors and details to the big or small happenings  but it just flows along. No burden on the head or on the heart! A book review by Humra Quraishi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title of the book \u2013 Corona Chronicles \u2013 An Intimate History of the Pandemic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author –  Rana  Nayar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publishers –  AuthorsPress<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages – 164<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price  – Rs 295<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Review by Humra  Quraishi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well-known academic and theatre personality, Rana Nayar, has come out with his latest book \u2013 Corona Chronicles- An Intimate  History  of the  Pandemic. And as the title more than relays, the focus is on Corona with all possible dimensions to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before curiosity overtakes you and I, along the strain that why did he decide to write this latest book on Corona, it\u2019s best to quote him from the Prologue,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c It  is  my  considered opinion that  re-visiting  an  event, howsoever  painful  or  traumatic, is  not  so much a reactivation of  negative  emotions  associated with it, as  it  is an active  release, a liberation from those  very  emotions\u2026This  book is  intended for a  common reader, who is  prepared to take the  rough, with the smooth, and  is  brave  enough  not to be  intimidated by the  painful  memories of the  pandemic\u2026For those who are  more  ambitious would perhaps look for a sense of  history in these chronicles as well. While writing  Corona  Chronicles, <\/em>though I was conscious of the  fact that  history was  literally  unfolding  itself right in front of  my  eyes, I  chose the  narrative over the  historic method for  recording my  impressions \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes,  after reading this  book  I can say that  Rana  Nayar  has  recorded  every  possible aspect  and all  possible dimensions to the  Corona pandemic.  And he has done so in that free flowing way. An easy, absorbing read. In fact, the forte of this book is exactly this. Though it is  loaded with  facts and  factors  and  details to the big or small happenings  but it just flows along. No burden on the head or on the heart!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book should come in handy for researchers and students and planners. And definitely for the survivors of that Corona phase! Not to overlook its  significance for the  future  generations; all those who didn\u2019t  really witness that Corona  phase and the  upheavals it bought along and  inflicted on the  citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if the sarkari men and the so called medical \u2018experts\u2019 would find time to read this book, then it  would portray to them details to that phase, with all possible hues and dimensions \u2026 Beneficial  knowledge, just  in case any further  calamities  and viruses  hit the fragile  human being!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaving you to introspect on what  Rana Nayar comments: \u201cIf  I\u2019m  making the  reader  walk through the \u2018valley of death\u2019  called  Corona, it  is mainly to provoke him into asking  questions that  have to do with our survival as a  human race. It was a tragedy that had wrapped its head around the entire  humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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