Ghachar Ghochar

by Vivek Shanbhag

For instance, you can visit at seven in the evening when it’s busiest, order only a coffee and occupy a table for two hours, and no one there will object. They seem to know – someone who simply sits there for so long must have a thousand wheels spinning in his head. And they know those spinning wheels will not let a person be.

This interlude at Coffee House, away from the strains of home and family, is the most comforting part of my day.

could money acquired overnight also not leave with equal haste?

‘Don’t forget us. Keep visiting.’ At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. I had grown up among them – how was it even possible to forget these people? Now I see what they meant.

WRITING IS SO GOOD.

Malati had always been unstable – a pile of gunpowder waiting to go off.

It’s true what they say – it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us.