English, August

Agastya Sen ( English, August ) - the school's 'last Englishman'

Photographs - Tathagata Sarkar.
Special effects - Tathagata Sarkar and Varun Jagadish Sharma

He lied, but he lied so well ...

'Ah. India lives in its villages, a terrible cliché that, but really very true, like all clichés.
Wittgenstein, wasn't it, who said that India lives in its villages ?'

'No, Gandhi.'


"I don’t want challenges or responsibilities. All I want is to be happy"
How true !!

I am going to go home and think ...... I need to think….

I've become your American, taking a year off after college to discover himself

His real ambition was to be a domesticated male stray dog because they lived the best life.
They were assured of food,and because they were stray they didnt have to guard a house or beg or shake paws or fetch trifles or be clean or anything similarly meaningless to earn their food.
They were servile and sycophantic when hungry;once fed,and before sleep,they wagged their tails perfunctorily whenever their hosts passes,as an investment for future meals.
A stray dog was free,he slept a lot,barked unexpectedly and only when he wanted to,and got a lot of sex

…maybe yes…maybe no…maybe I don’t know.
The mind is restless, o Krishna.

English looked for happiness in living more than one life, and had failed, but with such grace !!!