Cycle of Cliches
The grocery and stationery shopkeepers, the crossroads gangs of elderly young men (who seemed to have the primary occupation of gathering at the crossroads in the colony, flaunt their jeans, t-shirts, biceps, hair and motor-bikes and engaging in many an interesting conversation over cigarettes and gutkha), the awakened ones – members of social welfare clubs–the local intelligentsia comprising primary and high school teachers, student leaders, ex and to-be rebels – everybody in the colony took the munificent initiative of asserting that she was with a high profile client the entire night and certifying her as the new gone girl.
Sonjoy, the Bengali-speaking salesman at Rukmini Pharmacy, all-on