A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred Aiyar Pallavi
A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred Aiyar Pallavi In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes realized. Origami cranes…
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A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred Aiyar Pallavi
In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes realized. Origami cranes have become a symbol of renewal, atonement, and warning. But folding cranes, and the meditative, solemn care that it involves, has come to mean more than just an exercise in wish making.
The crane is a migratory bird that crosses borders and makes its home with scant regard to the blood-soaked lines that humans have drawn on maps.This anthology uses origami cranes as a way for some of India's best-known writers, poets, and artists to form a shared civic space for a conversation about the fault lines in India at a time of darkness. Their symbolism may have emerged out of Japan's particular mythology and history, but they do not belong to any one nation. The twenty-three pieces collected here encompass reportage, stories, poems, memoir, and polemic--the kind of