When a writer goes in search of paradise
- Mindfield
- Jan 20, 2023, 20:33 IST IST
And finds it not in a place but in our messy lives
What kind of paradise can be found in a world of unceasing conflict? Is the search for paradise only bound to aggravate our differences? Those are the grand questions posed by book of travel and philosophy, .
He starts in Iran, the place that gave the world the very word ‘paradise’, whose gardens are modelled on that higher garden that awaits us. Today the world’s largest theocracy, religious and secular forces have fought over many visions of utopia. He is aware of being surveilled as a foreigner. In its rich, lacquered beauty, he senses an iron presence, a complex ambiguity.
He starts in Iran, the place that gave the world the very word ‘paradise’, whose gardens are modelled on that higher garden that awaits us. Today the world’s largest theocracy, religious and secular forces have fought over many visions of utopia. He is aware of being surveilled as a foreigner. In its rich, lacquered beauty, he senses an iron presence, a complex ambiguity.
