The World of Venice,

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. . .

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.