Reading Wrap-up || January & February 2024

[@SriRam-ic2vg]

Thanks for the review madam

[@Talesandtexts]

You’re welcome. Thanks for watching! 😊

[@nancythakur6478]

Plz ma'am suggest some books on cli- fi or books that deal with environmental issues, both Indian or foreign writers

[@Talesandtexts]

I have read Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup. This does touch upon climate change, although its one of many themes explored in the book. Then there is Aranyak by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. I wouldn’t say its about climate change, but more about forests and our relationship with them as humans. Janice Pariat’s Everything the Light Touches is also partly cli-fi and also about indigenous land rights. I would also frame Ruskin Bond’s works as something that we can look at from a cli-fi lens, purely because he writes of a time when India was rich in trees, plants and animals. If you compare the places he writes about then and now, you can see the impact of climate change. Many people suggest The Overstory by Richard Powers - but I have made a video about why it is a racist and indigenous exclusionary book which doesn’t deserve the attention it gets. Anything by Amitav Ghosh does partly come under partly cli-fi, partly political-fiction. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Otherlands by Thomas Halliday and Indica by Pranay Lal are all books about natural history, which also have a lot about climate change - but these are non-fiction.