Cycle of Cliches
Now see, I have three of the most intelligent people I have ever met in my life proving the universality of the first insight.
But then, that night it wasn’t Nisim’s snoring that bothered me much. It was the other insight that made me toss and turn in the bed until daybreak.
Before going off to sleep, Nisim had asked me, “Why would you write?”
“Because if I write, someday, I will also get that thing…The Booker, and make crores of money. We can then do up our house, we will be done with all our woes, Ma won’t have to keep calculating every second week of the month how to run the rest of the days, our father can start his printing press, we can go to Shillong and to all other places, we always