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Trenches and mounds of dust everywhere give the city a strange bombed-out look.
A Strange and Sublime Address (1991)
Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.
A Strange and Sublime Address (1991)
The grown-ups snapped the chillies (each made a sound terse as a satirical retort), and scattered the tiny, deadly seeds in their food.
A Strange and Sublime Address (1991)
Abhi, Babla and Sandeep slept like primeval creatures huddled on the island of the bed, close to the horizon, outwaiting the dawn that would bring the first thought to their heads. Their bodies slept with a pure detached love for every moment of sleep.
A Strange and Sublime Address (1991)
... the floor was a stone slab of coolness, an expanse of warm ice that would not melt.
A Strange and Sublime Address (1991)
She would sweep the floor – unending expanses, acres and acres of floor – with a short broom called the jhadu, swiping away the dust in an arc with its long tail, which reminded one of the drooping tail of some nameless, exotic bird.
A Strange and Sublime Address (1991)