Bologna, 2018. The odor of seriousness hung heavy in the reading room of the archives.

Bologna, 2018. The odor of seriousness hung heavy in the reading room of the archives.
In the film Don’t Look Up, a particularly memorable scene features scientist Dr. Kate Dibiasky, portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence, tearfully proclaiming on national television, “We are all 100% for sure gonna f***ing die”.
Sitting at home for the last few months, I’ve reflected on what it would mean to listen to and amplify the voices of the farmers protesting in India without being at the protest site even once.
Buy, borrow, or steal was the motto. Alexandria was the capital of world knowledge, and ships using its coast were searched for books of any kind.