DANGERLOK ************************** By Eunice de Souza
Rina Ferreira, middle-aged and single, lecturer of English literature,
tentative poet, owner of two parrots and a flat in the Queen's Diamond
buidling, will live nowhere else in the world except in the
squalid corner of Bombay she inhabits.
It is not an easy life. Daily she comes across some dangerlok around here
-- the autorickshaw-walas who clog her lane with their double-parked
vehicles; the neighbour who objects to the 'kept' woman in the flat below
hers; the lecturer who comes to the staff room, has a dosa and leaves
without teaching a single class; students who wonder if she wears a
nightie or has any friends; politicians who tear down mosques.
With her cigarettes and mug of jungli tea, Rina observes them all, and
dashes off letters brimming with details of her life to David, an old
flame now in America who calls up to talk about his girlfriends when sober
and to profess his love for her when half drunk.
Funny, irreverent and sad. 'Dangerlok' is the story of an urban life, with
all its absurdities, loneliness, and, of course, danger.
Penguin India Rs 150. 0143 027883
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