Nirmal Verma

Lovely.

And the new literature, you know, so discovering Hindi literature, discovering the writings of people like Nirmal Verma, Krishan Pal Deo Ved, um, uh, uh, and many writers like that.

And then, um, you know, then, um, so it was everything was like, you know, uh, and all the new Indian writ- the English writing had started, you know, that, that had-

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Journaling to Remember by Anandi Mishra.

While I've come across various literary and artistic works praising the art of looking, what truly led me down this path was Nirmal Verma's Ek Chitta Sukh nineteen seventy-nine, translated as A Rag Called Happiness, nineteen ninety-three.

In this Hindi novel, the 14-year-old narrator Munnu writes moving descriptions of everyday life in his notebook.

"This I'll remember," the boy told himself.