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Deep down the memory lane it was a rollercoaster.each and every word hit hard big round of applause 💕💕

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- "The sort of companion who never explains herself fully, yet somehow rearranges the furniture of your heart and leaves you grateful for the disturbance [...] It was always a little indulgent, a little excessive, as though the city took quiet pleasure in watching you surrender to her. [...] I sometimes wonder whether Bombay’s greatest architecture was never her buildings at all. It was her instinct to accommodate."

You live Bombay, she lives in you, as you wrote. I experience her in some of the texture and character of our friendship.

- "Love is never about possession. It is about preparing someone well enough that they may one day leave, yet never truly depart."

A very endearing sentiment.

- "I think it was teaching me that civilisations do not become smaller by opening their doors." This is something dearly needed to be remembered these days: one need not fear inclusion.

- "In the way a roti could puff over the flame while courage, sacrifice, honour and defiance quietly found a place in a child’s imagination."

So evocative. And I love that you have this in your mental treasure chest of memories.

- "We honour those who came before us not by repeating their words exactly. We honour them by allowing the quality of their lives to refine the quality of our own."

Well thought, well stated. I take this with me moving forward.

- This essay points in so many interesting directions thematically --including towards some habits that trouble me, from time to time, about my own conduct: use of power without sufficient compassion, strength without sufficient humility. These lead to, in my opinion, some of my worst behavioral choices / reactions. I appreciate receiving these concepts about something that was already bothering me. 🙏

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