nostalgia
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The carton arrived the way good things always do here in Mumbai: sweating slightly, a little battered at the corners, smelling of somewhere else. I knew what it was before I opened it. You always know. There is a particular hush that falls over a house when the year’s first mangoes from your own farm…
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I’m a Bollywood music buff. Not the songs bollywood churns out these days, but the older ones till 2015 or so. I used to be an avid collector of audio cassettes and later on CDs. And yes, no one was allowed to touch my collection without my express permission. Of course, there are some songs…