Ganesh

Saleem Sinai, the protagonist of Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children", tied by the time of his birth and the shape of his head to his motherland, is snotty and miserable. I, allergic to my homeland and suffering from a cold after an unexpected meeting with my birth-land, am snotty and miserable. I make a cocktail from my allergy meds and my cold meds and read on...