A Blog begun years ago as a stroll on the Funny Side of Serious
Street, highlighting India's problems. Revived by adding memories of old
Bombay, including excerpts from Dreams of One Country.
JUHU BEACH MONSOON RUN
(Old Bombay Scene: Excerpt 3 from Dreams of One Country - Amazon Books.)
(Old Bombay Scene: Excerpt 3 from Dreams of One Country - Amazon Books.)
The dawn skyline south was obscured by windblown sea
spray, layer on layer of bluish-grey. Mercury vapour lamps glimmered along the
coast. It was exhilarating to run into the fierce southwest, the rain pricking his
face like needles. He felt he could run forever. Crows beat their wings and
stood still in the air, then tumbled over and were hurled landward. Transparent
air-sacs of little physalia went plop under his feet. In the wet sand the button shells - little univalves intricately
varied in colour and design - looked like jewels strewn around by a squanderer. Strangely, in the monsoon sea wind he smelt
the herbal fragrance of khuskhus
roots. Was that an olfactory hallucination? Between Priyasmeet and the beach was
the thatched house of a Michael Creado. He belonged to Bombay’s Roman Catholic fisher community, the
East Indians. Michael sat in his porch every morning, his face swollen and sore
from a surfeit of alcohol. Some days he wore a T-shirt and a traditional langot (a coloured cloth triangle that
left the bottoms bare), and fished in waist-deep water.
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Check out Dreams of One Country on Amazon.com. If the novel's Revolutionary Theme - the March to a NewIndia - appeals to you, you can download it on any device: I phones, pads or computers. In the 21st Century story youth lead India's people to unite as Ek Desh (One Country), to strive together and build an enlightened and truly modern nation
