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A Civilizational Manifesto: Reading Amritasya Putrah by Kanchan Banerjee
In an era marked by cultural amnesia and spiritual disorientation, Amritasya Putrah by Kanchan Banerjee arrives not merely as a book, but as a civilizational invocation, a reminder that India is not merely a geopolitical construct but a living, breathing samskriti, whose soul has been nourished for millennia by the chants of the Vedas, the wisdom of the Upanishads, and the tapasya of countless rishis. The title, drawn from the Upanishadic mahāvākya, “Shrinwantu vishwe amritasya putrah” (“Listen, O Children of Immortality”), is not a poetic flourish, but a call to reawaken the sacred identity that lies dormant beneath centuries of conquest, colonization, and confusion. Banerjee does not write as a…