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  1. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this. It was while I was in this position, the blood rushing to my temples, that the door swung open.
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  2. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. {…} I was to discover that making tasty soup with one carrot, ten peas and a little dishwater, was his greatest skill. One wondered what the man would be capable of creating with a blender and a non-stick frying-pan.
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  3. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment.
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  4. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    Foras Road has a sordid reputation {…} Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.
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  5. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom.
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  6. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.
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  7. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
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  8. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: 'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten!
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  9. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.
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  10. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.
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  11. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    In India everything has a use and a value.
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  12. Tahir Shah _ Beyond The Devil's Teeth

    Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a most amazing journey:The sages who have compassed sea and land,Their secret to search out and understand,My mind misgives me if they ever solveThe scheme on which the universe is planned.
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