The One Certainty
July 27, 2023
“If you ever decide to gift that willow to someone, remember the man behind the wickets.”
– Jeff Dujon to Sunil Gavaskar when
“If you ever decide to gift that willow to someone, remember the man behind the wickets.”
– Jeff Dujon to Sunil Gavaskar when
Our story lit with borrowed powers
Rather, by what our spirits burned,
Embered in words, to us returned.
– Vikram Seth in An Equal Music
Utopia
Island where all becomes clear.
For all its charms, the island is uninhabited,
and the faint footprints scattered on
Grotesque figures in dimly lit windows,
Half broken, half forgotten objects;
Lurking in those hazy lights,
Looking with their dreary eyes,
At cabs lurching, men trudging by.
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