Fiction: Below are the ramblings of an inhabitant of Darjeeling whom I often happen to meet. They are the words we have been hearing in the hills since the beginning of the Gorkhaland agitation in 1986.
“Material culture is the history and philosophy of objects and the myriad relationships between people and things.”
- Bernard Herman, material culture scholar.
Fiction: I wanted her to sit. Her standing made me nervous. Would I be able to stand after the session? Just like that, just like her. So easy. You will fall. Fall! I thought of Mumtaz again: she was so quiet when we met the first time. She was hiding everything that happened.
