Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment.
Tahir ShahTag: society values india gondwana
In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
Tahir ShahTag: psychology india gondwana
Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. (…) I was to discover that making tasty soup with one carrot, ten peas and a little dishwater, was his greatest skill. One wondered what the man would be capable of creating with a blender and a non-stick frying-pan.
Tahir ShahTag: india chef gourmet gondwana
What is done cannot be undone,
Knowing that, face it but do not run.
Tag: inspirational india rupansh-gupta the-sojourn
And Aziz in an awful rage danced this way and that, not knowing what to do, and cried: "Down with the English anyhow. That's certain. Clear out, you fellows, double quick, I say. We may hate one another, but we hate you most. If I don't make you go, Ahmed will, Karim will, if it's flfty-flve hundred years we shall get rid of you, yes, we shall drive every blasted Englishman into the sea, and then "—he rode against him furiously— "and then," he concluded, half kissing him, "you and I shall be friends.
E.M. ForsterTag: india colonialism british-empire
For the first time his senses began to register the exotic, heady atmosphere of Mumbai...the odors most insistently demanded his attention. There were layers upon layers of them, all present at once but individually distinct. They shifted in strength and character with the ocean breeze that blew soft, irregular gusts across his face. First came the sharp tang of engine fuel mingled with an even more acrid burning smell, as though something unnatural had been set alight to blanket the city with a smoldering stench. A shift in the air's direction brought a fresher aroma of salt and brine floating in from the sea. It gave way to the hot smell of spices frying in oil, which in turn incongruously merged with the subtle reek of garbage.
Kathryn GuareTag: atmospheric mysterious india descriptive-prose
At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.
Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?
Tag: inspirational truth reality equality women nationalism capitalism economics government government-corruption exploitation human-rights corporations india arundhati-roy environmental-degradation dam false-gods narmada-valley
A boy, Ranga, is the light in his father’s eye and the love in his mother’s heart.
Ian B.G. BurnsGIVE IF YOU CAN. TAKE IF YOU HAVE TO
Satyen NabarTag: india goa jacek-tylicki paloelem
[Taken from a BBC documentary]
Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his communist parents.
Tag: education atheism atheist communism catholic biography british india communist colonialism pakistan lahore
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