A personal journey through Desi novellas and non-fiction
Desi's are tranforming the language that their erstwhile "rulers" taught them.
Contributing to the top- and bottom-line of their literary agents.
And in the process, bearing their souls like never before.
It is liberating to write in a languate not your own.
Lets you come to grips with new thoughts.
And makes the mundane sound exotic.
Ask Arun Kolatkar's Kala Ghoda.
They're serving khima pao at Olympia,
dal gostht at Baghdadi,
puri bhaji at Kailash Parbat, ...
upma at Swagat,
shira at Anand Vihar,
and fried eggs and bacon at Wayside Inn.
For yes, it's breakfast time at Kala Ghoda
as elsewhere
in and around Bombay
- up and down
the whole hungry longitude, in fact;
the 73rd, if I'm not mistaken.
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