Grief Is Power- Essays
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Last published Wed, Jun 8, 2022
An electrifying collection of essays on writing, obsession, inspiration, and humanity from Dayal Punjabi (Penguin India). The writer pokes questions at our fantasized version of romantic love in "A Drug And A Dream," while he probes the depths of insanity of a writer in "An Abnormal State Of Mind."
All in all, in Grief Is Power, the writer explores the boundaries of grief in several forms and channels and how it manages to mold us into the people we become today.
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