Thoughts of a Dry Brain

Thoughts of a Dry Brain is a luminous collection of essays that distills a lifetime of reading, reflection, and moral reckoning into twenty-four pieces of striking clarity and insight. Written in the unhurried stillness of retirement, the essays span a wide intellectual terrain—literature, politics, philosophy, history, and society—yet are unified by a voice that is both deeply personal and quietly authoritative.
Unfettered by academic jargon, the essays speak directly to the thinking reader, probing the crises of our times with intellectual honesty and a deep humanism. From the poetic resonance of T. S. Eliot and the spiritual anxieties of G.M.Hopkins, to the cultural contradictions of India’s postcolonial condition, the book marries literary engagement with lived experience. It questions hollow nationalism, examines spiritual emptiness, and confronts the erosion of democratic ideals with a calm yet unsettling clarity.
What sets this collection apart is its refusal to offer easy answers. Instead, it invites the reader into a space of contemplation—dry perhaps, in its precision and restraint, but also richly alive in its emotional and ethical resonance.
This is not a book to be consumed in haste, but one to be savoured, returned to, and wrestled with.