Anthropocene (Paperback)

Anthropocene focuses on today’s most urgent and important topics: Climate Change and pandemics – and the possibility of consolation. It uses many genres (creative prose, poetry, photographs, etc).

Written by one of India’s most important writers, who has won international prizes for his work, including the prestigious Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-2022 for this Anthropocene.

This is a literary and artistic response to the most urgent issues that face humanity now — climate change and the pandemic. The author tackles the complexities head-on with honesty and sensitivity, without any compromise. Simultaneously engaging multiple genres — creative non-fiction, essay, prose, poetry and photography — the book interrogates our lives against the backdrop of a dangerously fraught and ever-changing landscape, on the emotional, physical, micro and macro levels.

Amid all the negative noise in the world, Anthropocene is a quiet artistic offering — a testament to our fervent times where the ever-increasing ravages of climate change scar humanity, where Fascist politics overrides the silence of introspection, where the cleaving schism between the rich and poor becomes ever-widening, where racism peaks at an all time high, where toxicity among people proliferates, and fake news abounds.

Ultimately, Anthropocene is a plea for positivity and prayer — it urges us to slow down, to introspect, to consume less. It is time once again to learn how to love selflessly and embrace “Hope, heed, heal — our song, in present tense”.