Books & Authors

Other books and authors mentioned in Family Matters with a note of reference.

The Jai Hind Book Mart featured a barefoot Santa in padmasana, an English translation of Bhagavad Gita open in his lap; perched upon his nose were half-moon reading glasses.






 Also running through the successful doctor's mind were lines from
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

I loved your lectures, I still remember the 'Ancient Mariner," and Christabel.' And all the stories of E.M. Forster that we studied from The Celestial Ominbus.

"Hah. And how do you think I feel when former students talk to me about their youth? 'Let the dead Past bury its dead,'"

A smile of enlightenment, thought Nariman, so like Voltaire's in old age, in the portrait that graced the frontispiece in his copy of Candide,

favorite books of Jehangir





 

We read many stories from the Shah-Nama - about King Jamsheed, about Rustam and Sohrab.


 

"To so many classes I taught Lear, learning nothing myself ...

People are afraid to accept the truth.  As T.S. Eliot wrote, 'Human kind cannot bear very much reality.'

a recitation attempted by Ashok (Jehangir's classmate)

"My research was thorough before I applied.  Vilas, my book-shop friend, had lent me a novel called Obasan.  And another book, called The Enemy That Never Was.