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Bombay
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He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises.
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― The Museum of Failures
― The Museum of Failures
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At her final dinner in Imperial Heights, she notices afresh all that a week has made familiar: the silk runner, the brass casseroles, and the many little bowls on her plate that Sita, already turning invisible, keeps refilling. The meal is elaborate. There is saag paneer because it is her favourite Indian dish; corn bake, should the curry get too spicy; what she now knows is dal, not soup; yogurt, rotis, pilaf rice and pickle. Her first night here, she asked what order to eat things in, and ever
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― Quarterlife
― Quarterlife
