No Presents Please

No Presents PleaseWinner, 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Winner, 2021 National Prize for Translation in Prose No Presents Please is a vivid evocation of city life, exploring the sub locales and spatial identities of Mumbai and the struggles of small town migrants. Jayant Kaikinis gaze takes in the people living on the margins a bus driver who, when denied annual leave, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for

and homelessness

a german post war movement depicting the social and physical decay of Germany after their capitulation in the second world war

lyrical ode to the ways contemplative practice illuminates daily life

manifestos above all declare what its authors are for and against

and a few pages later his head is on the floor

For an instant

everything vanishes before these joyous waves

worldviews

a key figure in Vietnamese contemporary art

Mixing the personal with the political

An important caveat to this would be to ask where and when the research occurs in relation to the walk

It documents a practice