2020, Me and Literature.

I started this blog more than 5 years ago, I write only a few pieces a year and I often wonder at how so many people all these years have been so nice to read and comment on what I write. Sometimes I meet new people in real life who found my blog through one source or the other, it’s a very small section, but this is the most unexpected direction I get happiness from. All I have invested are my patience and thoughts, but I think what I have got in return has always been more than my investment

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2020, THE year has entered its last month and we have little idea how different will the next year be. But unlike the initial months, I think most of us are more optimistic now, many have found ways to work in this new atmosphere. The year has finally given me some happy returns in my academic life.

I started this blog more than 5 years ago, I write only a few pieces a year and I often wonder at how so many people all these years have been so nice to read and comment on what I write. Sometimes I meet new people in real life who found my blog through one source or the other, it’s a very small section, but this is the most unexpected direction I get happiness from. All I have invested are my patience and thoughts, but I think what I have got in return has always been more than my investment.

As students of Literature our awareness of our surrounding has been high. We read the history of war, epidemics, plagues, and then we read narratives, experiences in fiction or non fiction. There’s a long and varied reading list related to it. Facing a situation like 2020 maynot be unheard of to us in this field, though of course difficult to accept. Reading has had an impact on our attitudes towards Nature-Culture (without arguments on its dichotomy), but for the others I hope a situation like this makes them aware of how nothing can be taken for granted.

I’ll again wonder as always if anyone reads it to the end and even if there would be just one person, I will find writing this worth it because I will have a reader. I am not putting up any photograph with it, all I want to experience is a reader reading your small work just for its sake.

-Mrinalini Raj (3-12-2020)