The Present Changes The Past. Looking Back

If You Write A Lovely Story About India, You're Criticized For Selling An Exotic Version Of India. And If You Write Critically About India, You're Seen As Portraying It In A Negative Light - It Also Seems To Be A Popular Way To Present India, Sort Of Mangoes And Beggars.

A Man Wasn't Equal To An Animal, Not One Particle Of Him. Human Life Was Stinking Corrupt, And Meanwhile There Were Beautiful Creatures Who Lived With Delicacy On The Earth Without Doing Anyone Harm. "we Should Be Dying." The Judge Almost Wept.

All Day, The Colors Had Been Those Of Dusk, Mist Moving Like A Water Creature Across The Great Flanks Of Mountains Possessed Of Ocean Shadows And Depths.

This Way Of Leaving Your Family For Work Had Condemned Them Over Several Generations To Have Their Hearts Always In Other Places, Their Minds Thinking About People Elsewhere; They Could Never Be In A Single Existence At One Time. How Wonderful It Was Going To Be To Have Things Otherwise.

A Journey Once Begun, Has No End