The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured narrowness, an austere frame made to contain the curves of a single body, to circumscribe it, carry it, give it a place, and when I slept at night, I possessed it entirely.
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Amit Chaudhuri
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A Strange And Sublime Address
Afternoon Raag
Calcutta: Two Years in the City
Freedom Song
Friend of My Youth
Odysseus Abroad
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He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.
[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.
All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which demands infinite versions of Indian food, and is unmoved by difference.