Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

"Since we are nothing but packages of tepid, half-rotted viscera, we shall always have trouble with sentiment.”

W H Auden:

"But in my arms till break of day / Let the living creature lie. / Mortal, guilty, but to me/ The entirely beautiful."

Thursday, November 11, 2010

क्या सीन है! Obamas in India

Look at the picture below:

Sitting- A Sikh, a Muslim, a Dalit Woman,

Standing- a Black Christian (who some say is a Muslim!) and,

On the wall- a Hindu Brahmin who was a Bhagavad Gita scholar.

Only in India, only in my India...

Such scenes, however symbolic, warm the cockles of my heart. I am an absolute sucker for them. I can't remain cynical when I witness them.


November 8 2010