Cycle of Cliches
When I told Nisim about this book, he said:
“This one, buddhu, is not called a long story. It’s called novel.”
At twelve, I was yet to learn about the nuances of short stories and novels.
The Thief also didn’t have a villain! Both the people, the thief and the writer, turned out to be good people! I wondered how could there be a story without a villain! Every story must have a villain, just as we now had one in our present one – Jogu Mama! That is the difference that you achieve when you grow up from being a twelve-year old kid to a fifteen-year old almost-man – you get the vision of the thing of things. At Ganeshghat when Nisim described Jogu Mama as the biggest patron of the school our par