Cycle of Cliches
The ceiling is pitch dark, as usual!
The beep of the alarm clock is where the dream breaks every time.
It has broken a zillion times over the last eighteen years. When I had seen this for the first time, while writing the novella, which I had burnt after the break-up with Junali, it wasn’t as clear as I see it now. Back then, it was just a quick monochromatic movie-clip kind of a thing, where Mr Rushdie congratulated me on winning the coveted prize. As years passed by, the dream also gained more clarity. Especially after I had started reading profiles and biographies of Booker winners published in newspapers and magazines. In fact, in the last one and a half months, watching interviews of th