“But at the same time, who would have thought that it would be so intensely satisfying to have your future resolved, to know what you were going to be doing next year and the year after that and so on and so on, until who knows when?…It would be enough; as an alibi for a life, it would do; she would not need to apologize for how she had spent her time on this earth.” Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
the british museum is holding a huge exhibition of bengali culture until jan 7th. i know so little about what that is. it feels so huge to even begin to understand. even to go to kalighat to ask about dhak lessons feels like a huge undertaking—to be fair i suppose it is, which anyone who has been there would know.