{"product_id":"once-upon-a-hill-paperback","title":"Once Upon a Hill - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKalpish Ratna\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring the world is easy today, all one needs is the internet. Getting to know the ground beneath one's feet is quite another story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI began to look for the island on which I live, and, it wasn't there. So began my quest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy was it difficult to read the landscape? All its past had been viewed from ships at sea, or from libraries in lands I had never been to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll its history was hearsay and all its storytellers were dead. I was an alchemist at the edge of discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndheri is where I stood, and Andheri is geology on speed. Hills explode, rocks shudder and slide, rivers slouch in culverts, the sea is dismissed, and the land sweats people at every pore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndheri is protean with mad caprice. A lake in the industrial district memorializes lost fields, a milestone marks a vanished road, a blind alley recalls a king, and our memorials are jailed in wire-mesh with dire warnings in three languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe're going underground, we're up in the air, we'll do the metro wriggle, the skywalk or trapeze, we'll do the right green thing on a prayer and a concrete wing, we'll flatten the hills, push back the sea, and we'll make even more room for the builder and me. The idea of Andheri is shaped from the land it is built upon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho will uncover that for me? How do you find something hidden in plain sight?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBegin in a village named for an epidemic, witness an exorcism, and enter a labyrinth. Emerge with a mirage and meet a curious cartographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJourney 60 million years with a turtle and a frog. Then, finally, find Gilbert Hill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce Upon A Hill is a plea from Kalpish Ratna to their city of Bombay. Gilbert Hill is where our past and future are gathered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShall we revere this still point, or as seems inexorable, destroy it with our dance?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIshrat Syed and Kalpana Swaminathan write together as \u003cb\u003eKalpish Ratna\u003c\/b\u003e. Writing science is their passion, and they believe it has its true place in the arts. Their Compendium of Family Health offers a quick logic to understanding symptoms, crises, and confusing medicalese. Their novel The Quarantine Papers was shortlisted for the 2010 Vodafone-Crossword Award. Ishrat Syed is a Pediatric and General Surgeon. Ishrat Syed, the photographer, is concerned with the ravages on nature. His October 2011 exhibition The Persistence of Memory previewed his larger project Palimpsest: The Erasures That Made Bombay. Kalpana Swaminathan is a Pediatric Surgeon. She won the 2009 Vodafone-Crossword Fiction Award for Venus Crossing. Her newest novel is I Never Knew It Was You.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43777026293823,"sku":"9789350298824","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/once-upon-a-hill-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}