Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Roberto Calasso
Born: May 30, 1941
Died: July 28, 2021 (aged 80)
Bio: Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Italian, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German. Latin and Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He was called 'a literary institution of one'.
Known for:
- The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1988)
- Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India (1998)
- The Art of the Publisher (2015)
- The ruin of Kasch (1994)
- Literature and the gods (2001)