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    Conversations and Monologues
    Conversations and Monologues
    Conversations and Monologues
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    Conversations and Monologues

    By Akash Kapur

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    Summing up six years of learning, writing, and growing, Conversations and Monologues is Akashs debut poetry collection. Spanning themes such as love, loss, apathy, and more, this book will take you to places that are happy, melancholic, and sometimes, just playfully absurd. So dig in and settle down for a series of conversations on joys, sorrows, and living.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPartridge Publishing India
    Release dateDec 27, 2016
    ISBN9781482886931
    Conversations and Monologues
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    Akash Kapur

    Akash Kapur is the author of India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India and the editor of an anthology, Auroville: Dream and Reality. He is the former Letter from India columnist for the international New York Times, the recipient of a Whiting Grant, and has written for various leading publications. He grew up in Auroville and returned there to live with his family after boarding school and college in America. 

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