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| Amitav Ghosh - Imam and Indian |
Sometimes you feel the visceral connection to someone, it can be someone who accompanied you in your travel overnight and then moved on. Sometimes it’s a movie / song video which seem to have created exactly what you could have visualized or the passage above by Amitava Ghosh from his book “Imam and the Indian” - Prose Notes / essays.
Barsaati’s (although he does not use the word here) was a common theme / occupational hazards of bachelors staying in Delhi. It was like the Indian version of gypsy culture - post college, first job, lowly paid but dreamer and idealistic in their views about society, friendship with women and rebellious of course. Portrayed in many movies this was the romantic notion we grew up reading and probably emulated when we joined job.
The sketch up of the above is explained in a much more nuanced way by Amitava that as I was reading I could visualize a multi verse of young writers staying in these catacombs and communicating at night, exchanging ideas and thoughts and traveling through the verse. All these at night as they continue their day job.
Writers can be such a great inspiration - Just reading it you feel like ‘Gosh If only I could write like this.
Another sprint starts 🙂
