Sunday, July 14, 2002

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Coping with the empty nest
Juhi Bakhshi

SHE had been rather reluctant to move beyond the confines of her watery world. The doctors had forcibly pulled out this unwilling infant choking over her own chord. Her brother was a more willing entrant a year -and- a- half later. Together, the siblings made a roller-coaster out of their parents’ smooth lives for the next 24 years. Sleep, solitude, reading, movies, parties and friends were the immediate casualties. Their life became replete with hair- raising experiences that kept the young parents’ adrenaline and blood pressure on a continuous high.

Beautiful? Oh, no!
Manohar Malgonkar
IN the court trial in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, a young man stands accused. His only fault seems to be a common Indian trait: excessively exuberant hospitality. He invites a couple of English ladies to join him in a picnic to some nearby caves.