Tag: madras
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The Atlas of Ghee and Gridlock
Optional, but for those who like their comedies with a prologue, please see Part 1: A Summer of Good Intentions and Bad Attention. It began, as all midlife revelations do in the year 2025, with a YouTube thumbnail: a woman in Santorini holding The Bell Jar like a wine glass, promising that travel had healed…
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all that is – 5: the last days of the 20th century man
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was unmistakably the end of time as we knew it. The twentieth century was down to its final ten breaths, its last flickering fax transmissions, and its remaining struts down the…
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all that is – 4: gravity for the unwilling
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage No one had consulted him when they changed the name. Not a single government official had sought his opinion, no minister had sent him a courteous letter of inquiry—Dear Sir, do let us know at your earliest convenience if we may proceed with this…
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all that is – 2. cats of mayavaram
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage There was, of course, only one type of bus that wandered, rattling and roaring, across the endless sprawl of Tamil Nadu’s roads. No matter what name it carried—Thiruvalluvar or otherwise—each was the same: rusted seats that had borne years of passengers, windows that insisted…
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all that is – 1: spring moon
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage Many years later, standing beside his wife in the sterile, antiseptic air of Bellevue hospital’s maternity ward, surrounded by the rhythmic beeping of machines and the soft murmurs of medical staff, he felt his mind drift. Two images, vivid and unbidden, rose to the…
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