Bourdain’s suicide mirrors India’s own slide toward death

Evidence

On June 8, 2018, the man who moved Mrinal to dream and inspired my visit to India hung from the ceiling in a French hotel room, dead and alone. A life that had seemed so unreal, so enviable, and that had inspired Mrinal and me and millions more to dream that we could have it, was real. So real that Bourdain was moved to take it with his own hand. He was only sixty-one, roughly ten years younger than the modern state of India, which too found itself swinging toward death. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 422

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• SHARE: A literary, elegiac fusion of a celebrity death with a country’s political trajectory — an observation to share with a reader of both travel writing and contemporary India.