A trade-in for happiness

He did it in rhythm with the smattered applause and laughter in the neighboring tent. Up and down, side to side,  his fingers discovering crevices and lines in his face that he had forgotten existed. As the sound of clapping faded, his need became urgent. Harder and faster he scrubbed, till the soap stung his […]

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The happiest place in the world

A left from the famous Sitladevi Temple and past one of the only surviving wheat mills in Bombay. Ahead of the hutments and the little stalls that sell vegetables to housewives who haggle in their nighties for a rupee and beyond the chicken coup that does not smell anymore because I have passed it so […]

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