Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.

Manil Suri

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They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to Islam, their joint 1,300-page doorstopper, spent twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover alone. The fact that they remained practicing Muslims (albeit the liberal, wine-guzzling kind) put their message in high international demand.

Manil Suri

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To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit.

Manil Suri

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What future did the Jazter see for himself, exactly? Would his days of shikar continue indefinitely, or did he dare look beyond the beaches and the train stations and the alleys? Could he, in some part buried deep within, secretly crave conventionality? (Or was that too much of a heresy?)

Manil Suri

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I made sure we fucked whenever the conversations got too emotional or too long - we weren't lesbians, after all.

Manil Suri

Mots clés gender-stereotypes



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You can scream you're Indian, you can disavow your religion, you can even be the next incarnation of Krishna for all your Hindu countrymen will care. Their HRM will pull down your pants and check your foreskin and slaughter you just the same.

Manil Suri

Mots clés wholesale-religion



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It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well.

Manil Suri

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The future, as always, felt too abstract to worry about, too nebulous, too otherworldly. What mattered was the here and now.

Manil Suri

Mots clés the-future



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I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English).

Manil Suri

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What are you now, Jaz Bond? Double-oh-Six, the chhakka secret agent?

Manil Suri

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