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My Last Autobiography {A Timeless Indian Novella}
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ISBN13: 9789363360884
Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
At ninety-four, a retired engineer decides to begin again-write his third and, as
he insists, final autobiography. Not because anything remarkable has happened to
him, but precisely because nothing does.
His world has shrunk to a single room: two caretakers who fuss over him; his
son, the doctor who once promised care, now scolds him and treats him as
another patient to be managed. His days too pass in small, stubborn rhythms: a
morning pooja, a quarrel, the scent of jasmine and perfume, the memory of a
lost earring. And yet, the old man writes-or rather, talks to himself-with energy,
humour, irritation, and flashes of startling tenderness. He writes not to record
history but to fill the silence of a life slowly slipping into invisibility. What
begins as a rambling account of routines and recollections turns into something
deeper-a fierce and ironic confrontation with the idea of decline itself.
Rajendra Banahatti's portrait of a man outliving his usefulness is unsparing
and profoundly humane. With wry wit and unflinching honesty, he captures
the strange dignity of growing old in a world that has stopped listening. In
Jerry Pinto's graceful, lucid translation, this last act of self-narration becomes
a meditation on memory, time, and the stubborn persistence of the self-the
voice of a man who will not go quietly, because his story is not yet done.
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