Bombay Balchao, Jane Borges

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A delicious story with some wonderful words, lines, and thoughts. Intertwined characters and urban legends of Anglo Indian families of Western india. The feels of Goa, old Mumbai and imported Manglorean culture. The dresses, foods, weddings, festivals, religion, culture and language.

I have always been fascinated by the typical Anglo Indian community which has quirks of English and Indians put together. It’s just twice the fun I think. The perfect amalgamation of human behaviors, identity and community. 

Some lines that stayed with me.. 

Time heals the broken. Sometimes, the healing is slow. Sometimes, it is slower. You cannot predict how long it will take before one forgets what it all felt like—heartbreak, the pain, the anguish, and that emptiness. Years could roll by, and you’d have done ten million different things to keep yourself from thinking, and yet, the mind would remember that moment when your life fell apart and crushed you whole.