Paradoxically, his animals remain unknowable not because they're in the wilderness but because they're in captivity, in the cramped, clapped-out cages of old, outmoded zoos.
This was the land of choked thoroughfares and magnificent old palaces, of bearded sadhus and bedi-smoking beggars, of rattling trains and clapped-out buses, was it not?
We spend the afternoon of our wedding anniversary (and my birthday) by the side of a road with our clapped-out car waiting to be picked up by a recovery vehicle.
