: ‘Earthspinner’: Anuradha Roy’s intricate new novel is centred on a potter and a horse he creates #IndiaNEWS Sunday, November 4My days have begun to follow a rhythm independent of term time,

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‘Earthspinner’: Anuradha Roy’s intricate new novel is centred on a potter and a horse he creates #IndiaNEWS
Sunday, November 4My days have begun to follow a rhythm independent of term time, tutorials and friends, it’s the calendar of the clay that determines mine. I think of shapes and colours waking and asleep, and instead of the books for my courses I keep reading about materials for making glazes and clay for pots. I’ve come across names that ring small chiming bells inside me. Quartz, feldspar, limestone, dolomite. Cobalt, chromium, titanium, petalite.I’ve heard some of these names before. They are like notes that linger from a happier time. I know about the Dolomite range and owe a visit to a companion of my child-hood, Piccole Dolomiti – Little Dolomites – somewhere between Trentino and Verona, that my father told us about, wanting to share with us his fascination with the universe. Some evenings he went on reading aloud from books on geology oblivious of the fact that Tia and I had tuned out in the first five minutes. But his voice seeped into us, and his oddly soothing discourses on plate tectonics, much of which we did not understand, collected in me and Tia and shaped us in the way limestone forms unnoticed in warm and calm seawater from sediments of shells...Read more

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