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• Tree times I told him don’t climb the tree to look at my sas. Leave my sas alone, men. I asked him ’gain and again but he din listen, so I gave him a hit, straight on the face like. De bugger began to cry like a baby, men. He begged me like but I din listen. I told him, you look at my sas, and I’ll break your bones and balls.’
• Hindus, at least those who had access to a little water, were hyperconscious about personal cleanliness. They bathed religiously or at least let the water wet them every day and even forced their poor gods to shower whether they were installed at home or in temples. Christians, on the other hand, didn’t think that salvation and bathing were causall...
• English was the thorn in the side of the Hindus. Its absence was their cross, their humiliation and the source of their life-long inferiority and inadequacy. It was a severely debilitating, if not fatal, lack that was not acknowledged, spoken of or articulated. It was the great leveller. It gave caste-Hindus a taste of their own medicine. It made t...
• Shammi Kapoor was the second of three sons. His older brother, Raj Kapoor, joined his father’s theatre company, moved to films and became a matinee idol. Within a short time he established his own film production company. He was Charlie Chaplin, Frank Capra and Vittorio de Sica all rolled into one. As a director, he had a superlative instinct for t...