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Nadi Ke Dweep by Agyeya | Books That Stayed With Me

  I found this review tucked away in my notes from 2018, and it felt right to bring it here, to Books That Stayed With Me . I had written it about six months after reading Nadi Ke Dweep , a book that had stayed with me long after I had put it down. Eight years later, I am bringing these words back, with very little change, because some reading experiences deserve to be preserved just as they were. An imagined visual inspired by Agyeya's Nadi Ke Dweep — its characters, their inner worlds, and the currents that connect them. I was surprised when I heard Osho say this:  “This book is a Hindi novel which has not yet been translated into English. Strange to be mentioned by a man like me, but it is worth mentioning. The Hindi title is NADI KE DWEEP, which may be translated as ISLANDS OF A RIVER, and it was written by Sachchidanand Vatsayayan. This novel is for those who want to meditate; it is a meditator’s novel. No other novel, neither by Tolstoy nor Chekhov, can be compared to it...

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