Farrukh Dhondy

Mar 31, 2010
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Farrukh Dhondy

Vive la difference

“Let Baigans be Baigans...”
From The Brinjalnama by Bachchoo
In my youth my father constantly told me that I wouldn’t realise it then, but as I matured, experience and the world would bear upon me and I would turn away from the Left-wing, socialistic, even communistic views I held and spouted. This happened, he said, to everyone.
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Kidding around

“At last I am safe,
My creditors do not know me...”

From The Kadkanama of Bachchoo

In Ranikhet some years ago for Subhash Ghai’s shoot of Kisna, to which I was contracted as a co-writer, I was sitting around the dinner table with the director/producer, his assistants, stars and hangers-on. An Indian film shoot is quite a mela — as Shekhar Kapur is fond of saying, some final sense and order emerges from “existing in chaos”

Commit no nuisance

“An ant can walk through an elephant trap...”
From Size Matters by Bachchoo
Outside our house in Pune, under a spreading neem tree, every day of the week, Raghunath would set up his stall which was no more than a handcart fitted with four b

Identity crisis

“Don’t call it a day
Its proper name is night....”
From Aisa nahin bolneka
by Bachchoo

Father of the bride

“God help those
Whom, God inevitably knows,
Have helped themselves...”
From Dakoonama
by Bachchoo

Where are the critics?

“Dawn breaks behind the eyes
He swore his love
The lies — the lies...”
From The Epitaphs
of Bachchoo

Colours of abuse

“If the world is The Word
Then metaphor is a midwife”.
From The Vah Vah
Chronicles of Bachchoo

Now Jack has ventured where the political angels of Britain fear to tread. I speak of Jack Straw, former home secretary in the Labour government and member of Parliament for the northern industrial (or ex-industrial and substantially unemployed) constituency of Blackburn which contains a large population of Muslim voters. Jack

Who’s the real martyr?

“Smash that cup, O Bachchoo
The poison of regret
Some make love to remember
Some make love to forget...”
From Songs for the
Bulbultarang

The 2011 genii

“Do not ask for whom the bell tolls
The cyclist will probably spit in your face!”
From Doonyadari by Bachchoo
The first line of V.S. Naipaul’s novel A Bend in the River is, “The world is what it is”. A pretentious critic could easily pause at his/her reading of the novel and reflect that th

Hide & seek

“Beware him who is happy to see you
— you may owe him money.”
From Naked Profit by
Kahlil Gibberish

(Tr. From the Bullshitian by Bachchoo)

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