I stumbled upon happiness some years ago on the shelves of the British Council library. The elusive, indefinable feeling of pure joy came to me in the form of Cruel Madness, an innocuous, slim book by travel writer-novelist Colin Thubron. It's certainly not the best I've read, nor inspiring enough to give my life a whole new direction. It just made me happy. Cruel Madness is a story of lost love and lingering longing filtered through memory, nostalgia and dementia. For the romantic in me, it became a favourite reverie. Each page unfolded like a visual, I read the book as though I was seeing a film, one the dormant filmmaker in me would someday have wanted to put a signature on.
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And then I lost the book. I could never find it again in the library, couldn't trace it in any of the Delhi bookshops and found it perpetually out of stock in the ever-reliable amazon.com. The happiness of having read it remained, only I couldn't grasp the feeling in my hands nor revisit it at will. Then, just a few weeks back, I tripped on it again when I...
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