In a new Avatar i suddenly find myself being addressed as 'Bhabhi ji' (sis in law), her role notwithstanding, and a moniker i've yearned for, the gleam of it, not wasted on me for sure. I have a spouse with no sis, no bro, and to top it he's a Madrasi (you know Tam...
Probing the dermis – life of two adolescents!
Probing the dermis - life of two adolescents!.
Probing the dermis
I am listening to his favourite song. I am him. I've got inside his little head- or big head depending on which HE i am. Observing his thoughts flying…or his stillness. Am i really or is it my imagination? At this very moment i am the mother, then the child, then the...
Read moreThe Reason The Mulla went to see a rich man. ‘Give me some money.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I want to buy… an elephant.’ ‘If you have no money, you can’t afford to keep an elephant.’ ‘I came here’, said Nasrudin, ‘to get money, not advice.’ – Idries Shah, The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin
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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“People will always yearn for a simple solution to their complicated problems. It’s a lot easier to have faith in something you can’t see, can’t touch, can’t explain, and can’t change, rather than to have faith in something you actually can.”
And, “Physical suffering, he’d long ago learned, bonds people in a way that everyday life can’t.” Bang on.
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The novel is wrought with violence, both internal and external and noise, that I heard, and shrunk from. Yet there are moments of pause, when I put the book down because I could take no more of the stark imageries that seem to streak the afterlife; dismembered limbs, blood-stained bandanas, eyes in various hues, skulls and ghouls and all that can make you tremble in your sleep. There is unsettling humour that lines the almost-400 page novel.