Grandpa's songs

October 06, 2016 08:57

"I feel like a full-fledged Bong dinner tonight, she said, curled up on my grandparents' four-poster with the unguilty self-indulgence of the errant NRI, but does that mean we'd have to go to one of those ghastly family places where there's no alcohol and they play Tagore on the synthesizer? Possibly, I answered, they do make the gloom rise up from deep within one's guts, don't they? Before long, we got talking about the Old Man and his songs. She did not have a word of Bengali, but knew a great deal about Hindustani classical music and had grown up with Cole Porter and Begum Akhtar in Parsi Colaba."

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