How stories can heal us as a generation | Twinkle Khanna and Elif Shafak | Tweak India Book Club

"We need to spend less time on information and focus more on knowledge — and hopefully, on wisdom.”
In this eye-opening conversation from Tweak Book Club x Crossword meet-up, authors Elif Shafak and Twinkle Khanna dove deep into our book of the month, ‘There Are Rivers in the Sky’.
They explore why attention is a precious resource, the unseen currents of water scarcity and its impact on women, and why every family needs a memory keeper.

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The Tweak India Book Club X Crossword is curated by Twinkle Khanna. It’s a space for the literary curious where we dive into a new book every month. You can expect side effects like laughter, deep introspection and the occasional book hangover.

0:00 – Introduction
0:15 – Does fiction make truth more accessible?
1:41 – The memory keeper in the family
4:23 – The theme of 'water' in the book and its connection to gender
5:56 – Thoughts on AI and technology as a writer and as a human being
8:01 – The atrocities surrounding child slavery and womanhood
11:17 – Is there inequality between male and female writers?
12:37 – The thread of language
13:21 – Watch next

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