“The Tree Within: The Mexican Nobel Laureate writer Octavio Paz’s Years in India” by Indranil Chakravarty
It seems that the Nobel Prize-winning Octavio Paz was “obsessed with the idea of the Other as not an external entity but a tree within”. Borrowing the phrase for the title of his new book, Indranil Chakravarti generously explores and develops this point, presenting his readers with different trees in different spaces, including Paz’s own…