The oldest building’s from 1962
and proud of it too. The tailor says
everything depends on the price of petrol.


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‘motorcyclists like to howl / and dogs drop bulging bags of garbage / from their mouths when they see other dogs / they want to mount’
The oldest building’s from 1962
and proud of it too. The tailor says
everything depends on the price of petrol.
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Anjum Hasan is the author of the story collection Difficult Pleasures, the novels Neti, Neti and Lunatic in My Head and the collection of poems Street on the Hill. She is Books Editor at The Caravan and lives in Bengaluru.
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