Cycle of Cliches
Stories that I would cook up at seclusion – while sitting at the commode, or while feigning sleep at home for an hour after school or while Biswa and I went for bi-cycle rides through the known and unknown lanes of our town.
That whole day, I was telling my co-benchers the story of Jogu Mama. The man from Guwahati, who had, by dint of his unusual cunning and hard work, catapulted his life from that of a daily wage-earner to a filthy rich businessman. Nisim, Biswa and I had discovered the story of this man, bit by bit, until we left for Guwahati.
As soon as Deuta paused, Bhaskar brought his lips close to my ears and asked, “Then, what happened?”