“How was it that no one had ever told her that it was not love itself, but its treacherous gatekeepers which made the greatest demands on your courage: the panic of acknowledging it; the terror of declaring it; the fear of being rebuffed? Why had no one told her that love’s twin was not hateContinue reading “Let’s go to the lush Poppy fields of Ganges this time with Amitav Ghosh!”