The girl from opposite his apartment has planted herself on his bed, relegated him to sleep in the couch. Vidyadhar, our protagonist from Benares, it turns out, has not even that solitary room left anymore. Har ghar mein ek kamra kam hai (This city has only one stress. Possibly the best line I’ve come across to describe this city is of course a pithy couplet from Javed Akhtar, which roughly goes: “ Iss sheher mein ek hi gham hai. The last occurrence is outrageously odd, even by bizarre standards of what mucky Mumbai could throw up on your face. Eventually, when he reaches home, he figures, his neighbour, a tenant next-door, has moved into his place, and there’s nothing he can do about it. Boss yells at him in public over a missed deal. BEST conductor instructs him to get off the bus because his currency note’s soiled, or torn. Roadside hawker refuses to serve him lunch because he complains too much. Be that as it may, the hero here seems to be having a rather rougher day than usual. Anybody who’s struggled their way through the city’s innards, always on the move, will know this.
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