The Glass Palace

by Amitav Ghosh

that while misrule and tyranny must be resisted, so too must politics itself … that it cannot be allowed to cannibalise all of life, all of existence. To me this is the most terrible indignity of our condition – not just in Burma, but in many other places too … that politics has invaded everything, spared nothing … religion, art, family … it has taken over everything … there is no escape from