"It was then that Delirium noticed that she had absentmindedly transformed herself into a hundred and eleven perfect, tiny, multicolored fish. Each fish sang a different song. And as she put herself back together again, unable for the moment to remember whether the silver flecks went in the blue eye or the green one, she decided that a dog would be a nice thing to have. And then it occurred to her that there had been a dog around at some point, hadn't there? A nice doggie. And she went off to look for it, trailing occasional fish ..."
"What's the word for when you used to love somebody and now you don't anymore but every time you look at them you remember sort of that you used to love them?"
"I have days like that all the time. I kept going all butterflies, before. And fishies. I couldn't help it."
"Sometimes it's too hard to hold everything together. I think it used to be easier but I'm not sure. Maybe you could be fishies for a while instead."
Shyam Benegal – playful, curious, formally inventive
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*(Wrote this tribute for Economic Times – drawing partly on a nice
conversation I had with Mr Benegal in Calcutta in 2013)*
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In the afterm...
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