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But the terrain is littered with memory mines.
he is a pleasure-loving gourmand,
All the accumulated insults, rebukes and disappointments of life in a decaying megalopolis come out in a cathartic release of anger.
Their transcendence is the last show at Maratha Mandir on Sunday evening or a trip to the crowded beach at Juhu to marvel at the freedom of the sea.
Someone whose being fills up with pleasure when he or she hears ‘Mere sapno ki rani’ or ‘Kuch kuch hota hai’. Here
Each character in the epics is multidimensional, the plots are multilayered, and the message is morally ambiguous,
The people working in it are far smarter than the product they turn out.
He is sometimes burdened by the sense of a life not lived, the feeling that he took the wrong fork in the road a while back.
The leaving of institutions has become institutionalized.
They were, for the most part, morally compromised people, each one shaped by the exigencies of living. What
Each of us has an inner extremity. Most of us live guarded lives and resist any pull that takes us too far towards this extremity. We watch other people push the limits, follow them up to a point, but are then pulled back, by fear, by family. In Bombay, I met people who lived closer to their seductive extremities than anyone I had ever known. Shouted lives.
It is a terrifying image. It makes me feel crushed, it eliminates my sense of myself, but it is ultimately comforting because it is such a lovely vision of belonging.
