I had originally posted the following as a comment elsewhere: —–1. “Yeh duniya, yeh mehfil tere kaam ki nahin” … [dhishkaaon] —–2. “Tere liye bandook nahin, mere haath hi kaafi hain, machhar”! [dhishum] oops… [fataaak] – splattered erstwhile human, but now mosquito blood on the wall. —–3. “Main is baar tumhaare bachche ki maan banane […]
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Long back my parents would ask me to be more graceful in dealing with relatives, e.g., to ask them “tamey kem chho” [Gujarati for “How’re you”?], though it literally means not “how”, but “why are you?”! Isn’t that offending, or at least a deeply existential query? Plus, I used to find it pointless. I’d ask, […]
Neglected Serendipity 