... invisibility was one of Bengali modernity's prerequisites and cardinal achievements. - Amit Chaudhuri

‘where the noon is a charged battery, and evening’s a visionary gloom’ ( St Cyril Road, Bombay )

I'm uncomfortable beginning at the beginning. It's not because I'm clever, but because it's a difficult thing, writing.

... I sensed that Park Street is, essentially (even for the destitute), a place of brief acquaintances and meetings no one has too much time for anyone else, you yourself are part of a web of motivations that are fading and resurrecting – and you must be on the move constantly to be in the street's ebb and flow of traffic.