listening to music on shuffle + cooking = Joyguru!

Katherine Boo's book 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers' are full of lifestories that i've encountered before but clearly i didn't find them worth writing about. That to me is a tragedy; that we (and i mean Indians) don't find ourselves worth writing about; that it takes a foreigner to intimately report on lives we see/hear all around us. I did start writing a piece on ghettoised Muslims in the forlorn parts of South Kolkata and filed it away. I should dig it out and share it. May be it will resonate with someone, somehwere and lead to a better understanding of lives less than ordinary