In the City Ghost
I feel low. Well, I am a pessimist usually. Most of the times, there is no need for a reason. That’s the general mood of the life I live. I also like being one. Because from the deepest of my lows, I find some amazing insights- insights about myself, about the times and society that we live in! Ah the mental stimulation of being in that space! But today I have a reason. I saw ‘Sacred Games’. The second season! And it reminded of the most quintessential part of me. Bombay! Sacred Games was written by Vikram Chandra around 2006. It was about Bombay, it was about crime in the city, it was about people who had made the city their home, it was about the relationships that they forged with each other (out of choice or compulsion). It was a best seller, a must- read novel to know about the city. Then why did I not include it as one of my texts for PhD thesis? I went back to ‘Baumgartner’s Bombay’ and ‘Ravan And Eddie’, the two novels that we studied as texts during our M A clas...