![]() ![]() ![]() Ogawa's story takes place in an unidentifiable island where seemingly random objects-perfumes, ribbons, hats, birds, books, bodies-are mysteriously made to vanish. ![]() Even as the woman is seized and arrested by the Memory Police-blank-faced uniformed men whose duty is to ensure that disappeared objects remain disappeared-she shouts, "No one can erase the stories!"1 Re- reading The Memory Police at a time when countless funeral pyres burn unnamed corpses across India, even as the country cowers under the relentless onslaught of Covid-19-fuelled by the complacency and arrogance of those in power-I marvel once again at the persistence of memories woven into stories that linger. ![]()
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