Two pulls live in me and neither has won. One says ambition is duty and lukewarm is no good. The other wants a quiet life in the country with work one hopes may be of some use, and rest, and books, and the company of people one loves. I am trying to do the first long enough to earn the second, and to notice when I am lying to myself about which one I am actually in. I grew up in Kolhapur, spent my early twenties in Bangalore and Pune, and am now learning to miss them both from London.

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