“Ajit Singh was the biggest goon in town. He had many interests. Dredging the riverbeds for construction sand, cutting down trees for timber on Forestry Department land, mining quarries for stone, stealing medicines from the government hospitals. So long as we did his work, whatever else we did, short of killing cops, we had protection.Continue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: An Assistant to a Corrupt Indian Politician (Deepti Kapoor)”
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RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Money as a Curse (Deepti Kapoor)
“Money’s a fucking curse, he said. It cuts out all the hard work. Before you had to be kind or funny or fun. Interesting or intelligent. You had to take the time to know people. You had solidarity with them. Then you’re rich. It annihilates everything. Everyone is nice to you. Everyone wants you there.Continue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Money as a Curse (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Poverty, Ambition and the Upward Climb in India (Deepti Kapoor)
“The only thing he is guilty of is ambition. Of rising above his station. Did my father cut corners on the way? Yes. This is India. The game is rigged, the rules are stacked, you people make the rules in the first place. You already have everything, and you don’t want to share. So sometimesContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Poverty, Ambition and the Upward Climb in India (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: The Vulgar New India (Deepti Kapoor)
“Sunny fit into the long line of boys she’d flirted with at school, slept with in college, all the boys she’d parked on the ridge, whose daddies were wealthy businessmen, who represented the new vulgar India her mother railed against. He fit into that line, and he transcended it. While those boys had appealed toContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: The Vulgar New India (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Get Out of Our Hair British Colonialism (Deepti Kapoor)
“I was there in England, I saw it, this ‘Cool Brittania.’ Oasis. Tony Blair. God Save the Bloody Queen. But you scratch the surface, it’s crumbling, its dying, there’s no future on that miserable island. The same in America. You think India is poor? Go travel around America. I couldn’t believe it. Meanwhile some backpackerContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Get Out of Our Hair British Colonialism (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Young, Rich and Glamorous Indians Enjoying Goa/Part Two (Deepti Kapoor)
“And unlike the foreigners, who count every rupee, money is no object for this new group, money is nothing to be concerned with, there’s no virtue in penny pinching. They spend. They want their comforts: they make no romance out of misery. Word of their big spending and the high tips that go with itContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Young, Rich and Glamorous Indians Enjoying Goa/Part Two (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Young, Rich and Glamorous Indians Enjoying Goa/Part One (Deepti Kapoor)
“Sunny is the leader of a small band of revelers, Indians who live like the foreigners, still something of a rarity in those days. Who live like the foreigners, but who are not like the foreigners at all, four men and one woman, something dangerously new and bold; young, rich and glamorous Indians, not afraidContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Young, Rich and Glamorous Indians Enjoying Goa/Part One (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: The “Mercedes Killer” Pawn in the Hands of the Indian Upper Classes?
“Hundreds of inmates piling out of their cells to congratulate. He’s something of a celebrity. They’ve all heard about the “Mercedes Killer”. They want a closer look, judge for themselves his innocence or guilt, see how tough he is, how scared, decide where he could belong. It only takes a minute to recognize he’s oneContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: The “Mercedes Killer” Pawn in the Hands of the Indian Upper Classes?”
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