Pachinko or pin ball bars play a big part, also the classic Korean kimchi. Pachinko by Min Lin Lee moves between Korea and Japan and tells the story of several generations, as they make a place in the world. If the recent Binjin Korean superstar wedding has given you a taste for Korean fare, try this feel-good family saga. The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam But a book called And the money kept rolling in (and out) by Paul Blustein about the Argentine economic crash from a couple of decades ago, is a good way to understand the dynamics behind another crisis, and to trace the interplay of local politics, economics, and global finance that lead to such disasters. I don't think anything has been written that describes this particular situation of dysfunction: too early, after all, for anyone to have put a book together.

And these worries are overlaid on the pre-existing worries about human rights, right-wing politics, and the troubles of minorities.Īny book recommendations to understand the current crisis in Sri Lanka?

I hear worries about exploding gas cylinders, about the high cost of living, about the country's future. What are you hearing from your sources in Sri Lanka? Read Revolt or title story When I Hid My Caste to start with. Baburao Bagul’s depiction of Dalit life was originally published in Marathi in 1963 to stunned applause, his stories have been translated into English by Jerry Pinto in 2018. They illustrate, with searing emotional intensity, the price caste exacts. A young railway clerk, a streetwalker, a wrestler, a bereaved mistress are some of the protagonists who feature in these stories. These stories throb with visceral portraits of characters driven to Dostoevskian desperation.

The unforgettable result of this is Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit a gritty account translated from Bengali by Sipra Mukherjee. Afterwards, he worked as a rickshaw puller on the Kolkata streets, where the celebrated writer Mahasweta Devi became his passenger one day and urged him to write his story. But his world changed dramatically when he was taught the alphabet in prison at the age of 24. Manoranjan Byapari had a traumatic childhood in the refugee camps of West Bengal, and later got sucked into the Naxalite movement.

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