Cycle of Cliches
His smile and that peculiar nodding of head, were perhaps the worst imitation of the character Shahrukh Khan had so diligently immortalised.
The only conversation he had the courage to strike so far with his fantasy was an over-enthusiastic “Nitu Ba, how are you?”
The window-sill of the living room was perhaps Nitumoni’s favourite spot for spending quiet, monotonous afternoons on most days. After school, when we passed by their house for the Hazarapar playground, we would see her sitting there cross-legged with a book in her hand, dressed mostly in frocks, thus unaware of the visibility she offered to our eyes, of her fair thighs and smooth calves, and on some rare, unmissable moments, while