Originally posted by: indi52
hey cynthia,
first to india, pick up the boy and wiwy and durga and straight to singapore.
your friend wants to go back to india. i am delighted she had a good time in my land. some people don't. enough awful things and plenty gorgeous things there. a complexity that i can't quite ever not want, no matter how corrupt our politicians and how regressive some of our views on women, and i feel super strongly about the second one. there's a feel to this land that i don't find anywhere. sometimes i can almost touch the layers of history just looking out on to the country side from a car... an ancient piece of geography where just about everything happened and left indelible prints.
laugh your head off at me if you like... but somewhere i feel this layering in barun and sanaya too. if you look at tehir separate cultures and the history of those in india, somewhere they are products of that too, and it brings a specific unique energy to them as people, as actors. he is so cute punjabi munda, with all the paronthe sharonthe go get gung ho of the punjabi (possibly his family part of the refugee punjabis who left pakistan and came to india during partition, and boy with that drive of theirs they just changed the story of delhi, an extraordinary mind set and love of life) and a belief in tradition and how to protect and respect women with a definite touch of pariarchy.
she so parsi girl, once foreigners to india, but made every effort possible to be part of people, and became so delightfully. an idealistic people with a lot of fabulous work to their credit, first steel plant in india, first five star hotel, first college of science/engineering, first airlines, er i may have my facts a bit garbled, but incredible contribution from a small community, plus the marvelloous quirky streak... no wonder sanaya could be so truly mad jhalli 😆.
come to india, cynthia, wiwy will tell you about us bongs, she the sweet punj (?) girl who thinks tagore in bengali.
wiwy, that endless love in bangla... wo.
and maybe you'll see the taj and like it too.
we really should meet, definitely once 398 is upon us.
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