By Sutanuka Ghosh Roy

The modern culture of panic over declining powers of memory is reshaping how we see the narratives of the past. This slim volume of dynamo brings forth the effects of how people and societies remember and forget. The title Map of Memories is interesting and intriguing. From ‘what we know’ to ‘how we remember it’, the archaeology of poet, author and academic Ashwani Kumar’s memory keeps changing, displaying political , interpersonal, social and cultural shifts. The tension between the poet’s desire to hold on to events and experiences creates the poetic environment of exteriorisation, which is captured wonderfully by the book cover, an expressionist artwork of the cityscape of Pokharan in Thane, by Sudhir Patwardhan. Map of Memories, a 32-page chapbook, is a compa

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