I’ve been busy offline organising my mother’s hospitalisation for a relapse of the ovarian cancer. Her health has declined and she’s visibly much weaker, but fortunately still able to read, make tea, watch television, go down to the garden with the dog… Her oncologist has put her on chemotherapy combined with a new drug. Everyone is hoping for the best.
I’ve always wondered what the tumour cells look like. The picture above is from here.
Here’s Vir Sanghvi in the HT writing about Vikram Chandra’s Bombay novel:
The Sartaj story has its own fascination. Nobody has ever quite captured the complexities of policing Bombay. As hero, Sartaj is meant to be the good cop. But he’s not your archetypal honest inspector. He takes money. He helps his corrupt superior despatch his own bribes to Swiss bank accounts. He is fond of random violence. He assaults suspects and witnesses. And he owes loyalty to a senior cop who is a Suleiman Isa stooge (until he switches allegiance to the Rakshaks).I loved Sacred Games. Almost all 900 pages of it. I’ve written about it here.The strength of the book — at least, from my perspective — is that it is set in a vastness of grey. There are no black and whites in Bombay. There is no simple right and wrong.
If you want moral certitude, find yourself another city.
Was it always like this?
I suspect that in the 1960s and 1970s when we were growing up, Bombay may have been a different city…
November 3-5, 2006 (Friday to Sunday)
The Welfare of Stray Dogs (WSD) is an animal welfare NGO that sterilizes and immunizes stray dogs. WSD also has an adoption program for abandoned pets and pariahs, an on-site first –aid program and an education and awareness program in schools, colleges, streets and slums. WSD has so far sterilized more than 29,500 stray dogs and impacted the lives of thousands more through first-aid and adoption.
WSD spends Rs 1,50,000 per month on the above activities and depends on the largesse of donors to fund these activities. One of the methods of raising funds to sustain costs is a regular garage/jumble sale. WSD is having one from November 3-5 , 2006 (Friday-Sunday) at Walkeshwar, near Chowpatty.
On Sale: L.P.s, Cassettes, C.D.s, Artefacts, Glassware, Crockery, Crystal, Gift Items, Linen, Clothes, Furniture and Electronic Items at THROW AWAY PRICES !!!
The proceeds of the Garage Sale will be used to fund the abovementioned programs.
Venue : Ground Floor Garage, Surya Darshan Bldg, 44/50 Walkeshwar Road, Near Sital Baug Bus stop, Mumbai 400 006
Date : November 3-5, 2006 (Fri-Sun) Time : 10 am to 7:00 pm
For more information please call WSD on 23733433 or e-mail wsdATwsdindia.org
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Adopt a street dog ! They are a breed apart!
(via email from Abodh)
