Sometimes books happen in the middle of a crowded place and that is what happened to him, said Avishek Parui, founding chairperson of Indian Network for Memory Studies.
His book, Culture and the Literary: Matter, Metaphor, Memory, that explores the human mind and the way technology influenced it was launched on Wednesday virtually by V. Kamakoti, director of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The human mind was unique in that it can process and store information and with the same ease it can also forget information, said Mr. Parui, a student of literature. He used his understanding of literature with examples of fiction and non-fiction work to explain how cultural codes develop people’s perspective of the world.
The author was an assistant professor in the Institute’s Humanities and Social Sciences Department.
