Cycle of Cliches
“Every morning I fall in love with one or the other thing about that person. Sometimes, it is his childish fetish for luchi and aloo bhaja that I fall in love with, sometimes, it is the smell of his shirt or his fingers that he runs through my hair, sometimes, it is his voice or the way he recited John Donne: ‘For God sake hold your tongue, let me love/Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout’, sometimes, it is his undying conviction on his chosen path or his unfailing trust in the goodness of things, sometimes it is his hugs and kisses. Thakur! What am I saying? No, it’s fine na? We are both woman, we both have husbands and sons….we are same. In pleasure an