This movement backwards to find a knot to tie, to find traces of an origin and collect them in the space left hollow within me, is prompted by a prolonged, gnawing emotion of detachment and alienation ...

Prepone” is now a word in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. So is “airdash”. For those who squirm at the made-in-India opposite of “postpone”, the dictionary-makers say: “It enriches the ...