Farrukh Dhondy

Mar 31, 2010
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Farrukh Dhondy

Deaths by cultural trauma

“Need is the mark of the
animal
Hunger the sign of life
At first there was the tooth
and claw
And then there was the knife....”
From The Darwin of Dhol
by Bachchoo

The Sun and the nude muse

“The prose is exhausted
All we have is poetry—
And then there’s song....”
From The Book of Failure
by Bachchoo

World movies with a dash of India

“The building took up all your timeNow dwell upon its ruin...”From The Collected Vanities of Bachchoo

Quotidian stories

“There is no magic door to Faith
Faith is the magic door.”
From The Proverbs
of Bachchoo

Noble Girish, what’s your intention?

“I lived in a skyscraper
The lifts broke down
I envied the beggars
In the shanties of the town…”
From Bombay Boli
(Ed. by Bachchoo)

To boost intellect, cane isn’t the catalyst

“My love was like a red red rose
The petals soon fell off
Instead of me my lover chose
A bottle of Stroganoff…”
From The Bachchoonama

War, peace and a sea of poppies

“To own a compass
And have no direction in which to go;
To own a barometer
And feel the pressure yourself;
To own a watch
And run short of time;
And to own a thermometer?
That’s so cool!”
From Jig-Jigri Baatein by Bachchoo

A prince and his secret letters

“Do we not know those whose ramblings are far
From anything called thought — and yet they ARE?”
From Descartes ke Dohey
(Ed. by Bachchoo)

Pak’s inheritance and women’s loss

“Being beyond good and evil
Is not to deny their
difference”
From Bachcheylog Khamosh! by Bachchoo

Plebs, prols and public apologies

“My first wish was
For an infinity of
wishes,
My second for an end
To the first…”
From Dada to Dadagiri by Bachchoo

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