This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour. - Amit Chaudhuri

... the cleverest way of battling the heat was not moving.

... the history of the “secular” as a cultural, humane, interstitial space in the midst of logos itself, has lost out to the idea of the “secular” as a fundamental manifestation of the rationality of the nation-state, just as the histories of modernity and cosmopolitanism in India have been subsumed, in our time, and for a variety of reasons, by a history of the nation.

... the floor was a stone slab of coolness, an expanse of warm ice that would not melt.