Conversations: India's Leading Art Historian Engages with 101 themes, and More by B.N. Goswamy

Conversations: India's Leading Art Historian Engages with 101 themes, and More by B.N. GoswamyB. N. Goswamy, one of the most eminent art historians of our times, in this book opens a window to a wide range of subjects: all on or around the arts, which have immense potential to form aesthetic sensibility. From Ananda Coomaraswamy to the Art of Calligraphy, The Meaning of Silence to Farid ud din Attars great Sufi parable of the Conference of the Birds, among others, Goswamy invites the general, but generally interested and literate, readers to

The resulting book

a vigilante snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire

Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile

brand name Eukodol

The impressive intellect and scholarship of His Holiness is everywhere evident in these tapes as he traverses the expansive body of Buddhist scriptures and commentaries

At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain

paves the way for enlightenment

And the one woman who appears to hold the key to the mystery is dying from injuries sustained in a plane crash

no feeling unshared

Penrose describes how fashion

I also got the place where I would put the home of the fictional detective [Harry Bosch] I had secretly begun writing about

no matter what the human cost