Hope floats on ‘air’, in a war-torn land...

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The Motherland is forever an object of veneration, however bathed in illicit doctrines of delusion by rebel factions and oft en founding fathers alike it may be. In these entities, to which countrymen profess their unbridled patriotism, there ironically emanates burning desire for bloodshed, a craving to kill and to blur the very horizon with a crimson hue; assuming frequently the form of mutineer blocs and civil wars. The eighties converging into the late nineties suffice for some of the ghastliest, most gory decades to have ever blotched erstwhile South American colonies, once a seat of the mighty Inca rulers. And though sporadic coups have been triumphantly repressed by successive, dwindling governments, and at most sporadic in recent years, it’s the memory of the tumultuous past that hovers like a shadow in their denizens’ subconscious. Peruvian-American Daniel Alarcòn, in his brilliant first long-format endeavour, Lost City Radio, appears to bear deep impression from such subconscious blemishes that eventually play the imperceptible protagonist in his narrative, lurking beneath the characters, backdrop and the story.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative