3801 N. Fasatiempo Place Tucson, Arizona 85705 USA 4 November 1984 My dearest Daddy and Mummy, I hope you received the birthday and anniversary cards I sent you as well as a letter I had sent a little earlier. The news from India is most distressing, and Indira Gandhi's death filled me with anguish. It is a terrible break from the past, and, despite all her faults, she was great. And now the reprisals against the Sikhs are also agonizing. The country seems to have gone mad, and I hope Ra...
The Country Without a Post Office . . . lettera dent I27 aea/‘eat /2L'm t/mt lived zz/aa.’ away. —GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Again I've returned to this country where a minaret has been entombed. Someone soaks the wicks of clay lamps in mustard oil, each night climbs its steps to read messages scratched on planets. His fingerprints cancel blank stamps in that archive for letters with doomed addresses, each house buried or empty. Empty? Because so many fled, ran away, and became refugees t...
