Animal’s People by Indra Sinha

Author:Indra Sinha
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2007-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

On the way back I’ve turned instead to follow the factory wall as it runs beside the railway. I’ve brought her here because if you want to understand Khaufpur and Khaufpuris, plus particularly how they feel about Amrika, this is where you have to start.

“Elli, see inside there, it’s the factory. In there everything is just as it was on that night. Since then, hardly anyone has been in. Except me.”

I start to tell her about what’s in the factory, Eyes, the very same things that I have already told you.

She grips my shoulder. “Let’s go in!”

Well this is not in my plan. “You can’t. Not allowed.”

“But you do.”

“That’s different. I’m an animal. I come and go.” If she gets in trouble with the powers-that-be, thrown out of Khaufpur maybe, what will become of my back? But Elli, like everyone, thinks only of what she wants.

“Elli, you can’t go inside. People like you must get a permit from the Dippety Collector, Poison Affairs.”

“FUCK THE DIPPETY COLLECTOR, POISON AFFAIRS!”

Two fat tears are running a race down her cheeks. She turns away like she doesn’t want me to see. All the way back to the Claw we’ve walked in silence. My mood grows worse. Zafar married to Nisha, this thought grips my brain with red hot tongs. It’s me who should marry Nisha, no other ambition is greater than this, and walking upright on two legs is the way I’ll achieve it.

I must repair Elli’s mood, I must show her that I am her friend. I was a fool to ask for a fee, nothing more must I do to upset Elli doctress. This very morning she took my X-ray, tomorrow she will send it to Amrika. Soon a reply will arrive. It will say come for an operation. This fucking hope grows wilder every day. When I return to Khaufpur after my operation, I will walk up and down the Claw. Nisha will not recognise me. She will see a young stranger, upright and handsome, there and then she’ll fall in love. She’ll forget Zafar, phhht, he’s gone. She will be besotted with her new love, desperate to marry him. Only one regret, in some part of her mind she will be wondering, what happened to my dear and faithful Animal, where has he gone? She will mourn for Animal who’s vanished no one knows where, but he will never return.

Eyes, I’m not a complete cunt, I know these dreams are so much crap, but with fluff like this, once it’s there it’s there, and you see stranger things in the movies.

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