Soul Climate By Inez Baranay

Soul Climate By Inez Baranay I know most of you visit libraries. Please tell me how do you select books for borrowing? I know brief answer is not possible. Ok. Suppose you are at a Mega Books Exhibition. You have a budget of less than 1000 rupees to buy a book. The book you have been carrying in your mind for the last 3 months is just before you, priced within your budget. Which is that book? As age progresses, whatever the WhatsApp University teaches you about living the moment forgetting the past and not worrying about tomorrow, a lingering feeling that time is running out flashes in your mind (read 'my mind'). Then we turn to the realities of life and if you are spiritually inclined, think of one's role in the scheme of things of this billions of years old Universe. On a lucky day one stumbles by accident upon reviews like this giving food for thought for a few days. Read this in The Hindu Open Page and have just ordered a copy of "Soul Climate" by Inez Banary available for 399 @Amazon. This review is by Meenakshi Shivram, a Sahitya Akademy translation award winner. Amazon Review A brilliantly inventive novel on the idea of India as a nation, seen through the eyes of a Turkish intellectual and freedom fighter. Turkish freedom fighter, author, and citizen of the world, Halide Edib travels to India in 1935 to deliver a series of lectures, fulfilling a promise made long ago to Indian nationalist, Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari. In Delhi, her host’s rambling house in Daryaganj is a place of inclusive hospitality and of historical meetings. Here, Halide meets many people central to India’s own independence struggle, specially Mahatma Gandhi, with whom she has several conversations. Before she departs, Halide promises to write a memoir of her time in India. The present narrator of Soul Climate peruses that memoir, and other writings by Halide, wondering what else she might have seen and remembered. In another strand of the novel that is pure fiction, three young women, close friends and cousins, who are attending Halide’s lectures in Delhi, are each at a turning point in their lives, taking first steps on their separate new paths. To each of them Halide’s words and personality speak differently, and they form their world views even as they get swept up in the process of their coming of age. Soul Climate deftly interweaves memoir and fiction, realism and imagination. Through it, we consider afresh such ideas as nationhood, religion, idealism, what makes us, and what divides us and how we unite.

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