Family Life

Ajay, eight years old, spends his afternoons playing cricket in the streets of Delhi with his brother Birju, four years older. They are about to leave for shiny new life in America. Ajay anticipates, breathlessly, a world of jet-packs and chewing-gum. This promised land of impossible riches and dazzling new technology is also a land that views Ajay with suspicion and hostility; one where he must rely on his big brother to tackle classroom bullies. Birju, confident, popular, is the repository o...

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Scribbling_Squirrel17 июня 2014 г.
Having spent most of their lives in India, where a bad marriage is often accepted as a part of life and where depression and mental illness are described as a person being moody, they saw these things as just life. Unhappy, though, and sometimes embarrassed that their lives were not as perfect as in the movies or as one was expected to pretend them to be at temple, they wanted to talk to someone.
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Scribbling_Squirrel17 июня 2014 г.
“Indians are that way. They are cowards. Instead of admitting they made a mistake, they would rather lie and try to blame you.”
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Scribbling_Squirrel17 июня 2014 г.
As long as I wrote about exotic things, I thought, I could then be a not very good writer and still be successful.
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