Started reading a hindi book after a long time.
Some background. I have this background thread in mind reflecting continuously on my western persona - the books I read, the music/movies I watch, my education, thought process, views, my job, language, dressing etc etc. So I get into these phases where I try to get out of that mode and search for the "Indianness" in me.
The first of these bouts started when I was in the first year of my engineering. I started reading a lot of hindi literature - Premchand, Gandhi par punarvichar (Osho) to name a few. Heck, I even found an old copy of Kalidas' (or was it Tulsidas) Shakuntala lying around and the read the whole thing in verse!
So now I am elated to find this book after a long gap, recommended by my dear friend P - Volga Se Ganga by Rahul Sankrityayan. Its a historical novel about the journey of nomadic Aryans from upper Volga through to the Gangetic plains of India. Some of the words are hard to understand but it's pretty interesting so far.
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