Nothing Human is Alien to Me: Not a Book Review by Gayatri Balu
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Oct

Nothing Human is Alien to Me: Not a Book Review by Gayatri Balu

Certain books glide into you. It stays there, refusing to leave, and reorients you at least in bits. This is about one such reading experience. Books speak to the location of the reader. I read Nothing Human is Alien to Me at a stage in an academic’s life quite often termed as an ‘early career researcher’, called so purely from a careerist gaze. Decent employment is scarce. One is observing an intimidating chase for citations, indexes, and grants. And quite often thinks ‘is it late alrea[...]
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