The Himalayan Arc by Namita Gokhale

Author:Namita Gokhale
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2018-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

Now, in Lajpat Nagar, Mr Sanchan struggled to shut out the sounds of the city’s discord – the barks of scampering urchins, the cries of children on their way to school, the whirr of motor vehicles using the lane as a shortcut, and cushioning all these sounds, the yodels of the sabziwala announcing that he had fresh onions today. It was a sea of noise and Mr Sanchan willed himself to float on it; it was the only alternative to drowning.

Mrs Sanchan caught the yodels and stuck her head out of the kitchen. ‘We need onions.’

‘Send Maya to buy some,’ Mr Sanchan said. When she emerged from the kitchen and glared at him, he smiled meekly, to let her know that it had been a deliberately feeble joke. He went to the balcony and contributed to the din, shouting to catch the sabziwala’s attention. As Mr Sanchan waited in the stairwell outside the flat, he made way for his neighbour, taking her boy to school. She pushed the child in the direction of the lift and he resisted, like a beast resisting slaughter, his shoes clattering on the floor as he struggled for a grip.

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