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This morning my father showed up in my dream! Of course in my dream, because he has been dead for 42 years. In my dream, he was coughing and looked sick. I asked him whether he was hurting. He answered an emphatic “No”. I reminded him that he spent a lot of money helping me become a doctor and that I was confident he needed a doctor. He did not budge. He never listened to me. I had to insert…..
Most fictional literature is to some extent based upon real-life events and nonfictional works often originate from fictional assumptions. Even mythology has a factual basis while great works of science were later on proven fictional! Margaret Mitchell once admitted that her character Rhett Butler (from Gone with the Wind) was based on a person she had seen in her life. The villains in Shakespearian plays were usually “lean, mean and thin”! Shakespeare must have seen quite a few “Cassiuses” in…..
” I wanted to convert to Christianity,” my father casually remarked as we returned from watching a cricket match, It made a profound and indelible impression on my eight year old mind. We had been talking about the British influence on Indian psyche an how cricket and English language were two lasting legacies that the Indians enthusiastically adopted. After all cricket was just a game and adopting a second language for one’s own benefit could not be considered a sacrilege……