Greed
The Grammar of Greed Reflections on a Fatal Ecology Aseem Shrivastava Illustrations Sachin Vyam Pages 246 First published March 2025 Publisher Red River Story ISBN 978-93-48111-84-5 Price 799/- At the beginning Aseem bhai writes, “ The book is written for those moments when there is an interval of leisure to ponder. ” This worked - the lines, the illustrations, the spaces all made me ponder! He adds,“ The sentences in this book are to be read very slowly. They cannot be digested without patience. ” While the book touched me as I travelled the pages I realised that for all my claims of having slowed down I have a lot to walk on the road! This is what the book does, it reminds you where you stand! And, it resonates! The text is all about “ we ” and not about “ them ”; the author and the reader are integral to the world that the book talks about; it neither talks about the “ other ” nor does the tone imply a higher ground - moral, intellectua...