Fragments against My Ruin
By Farrukh Dhondy
By Farrukh Dhondy
By Farrukh Dhondy
By Farrukh Dhondy
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$29.95
Jul 16, 2024 | ISBN 9781804295243
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Jul 16, 2024 | ISBN 9781804295281
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Praise
“A delectable read, about an unusually interesting life.”
—Tribune India
“Shores itself against time, with a historical sense of belonging that a young Farrukh Dhondy hoped one day he would be remembered for: an expat Indian student in London who once turned radical, rebelling against what C.L.R. James identified in history as the “cruelties of property and privilege”.”
—Telegraph, India
“Tableaux of fortuitous encounters, new friendships, and the early stirrings of political ideologies that will influence his work as a writer”
—Business Standard
Table Of Contents
Uncles and Carrom Boards
Secret Passages
Bad Words and Broken Records
Lazarus
Parsi Custard
Towers of Silence
A Town Too Small
Deliberate Disguises
Innocence and Experience
Amor Vincit Omnia
Bylines by Lines
Eenuk-A-Pole Hai Hai!
Black Is a Political Colour
Dolly Mixtures
Fire
Big As de ’Ouse
Right Time, Right Place
In the Beginning Was the Word
Houses for Mr and Mrs Biswases
Pilgrim’s Progress
All the World’s a TV Set
A TV Hack’s Odyssey
The Serial Killer and Red Mercury
Films I Didn’t Write
Films I Did Write
A Friendship and Three-Minute Eggs
Afterword: A Target Audience
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