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“In the small town of Tirunelveli, where everything arrived two years late, television was only the thing that was instant.”
Nallasivan V., We Are Little Men: In the small town of Tirunelveli, where everything arrived two years late, television was only the thing that was instant!

“In a sense, each one of us was facing forces that were far bigger than us, forces that we barely understood. My own business was going down after supermarket chains started coming up in the town. They sold most packaged items below MRP and was drawing my customers away. At first I thought it was a gimmick to attract people. And that the prices will increase again after a couple of months. But it didn’t. After six months, I started realizing how big these people really are. People still bought in my store, but only in small quantities. They made all their bulk weekly purchases in the supermarket, walking around their big alleys, pushing around the carts as in the english movies. I accepted, with much pain and nostalgia for the olden days where stock used to move without effort, that things have probably changed forever. Most of us did.”
Nallasivan V., We Are Little Men: In the small town of Tirunelveli, where everything arrived two years late, television was only the thing that was instant!

“Cable TV turned out to be slightly disappointing compared to all the salesmen talk that preceded it. We didn’t have 50 channels. We had one, that too available only between 6 pm and 10 pm. The channel was run by one of the leading political parties of the state. The channel’s logo was the party symbol, a yellow-orange sun. In hindsight, I wonder why this conspicuous display of nepotism never bothered us. But ironically in those days, the familiarity of the yellow-orange sun gave us some degree of comfort and trust.”
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“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough.”
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“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Estragon: Nothing to be done.”
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