Comments on: Khaufpur

Khaufpur

dhruva — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:28:36 -0800

Khaufpur is a city of approaching a million souls situated at the absolute centre of India. The lakes around which our city is built were made a thousand years ago. Since that time the city was lost in jungles, rediscovered and rebuilt. Again in the lifetime of those living, a terrible calamity came upon this city, but again it has risen and continues toward a future filled with promise.

By: slater

slater — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:51:27 -0800

ummmm... ok.

By: sluglicker

sluglicker — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:02:14 -0800

a future filled with promise Not with a million souls it doesn't.

By: sluglicker

sluglicker — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:05:45 -0800

umm, would that be with a million souls it doesn't? wait...

By: sluglicker

sluglicker — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:10:50 -0800

OK, got it. With a few million souls it isn't.

By: sluglicker

sluglicker — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:12:44 -0800

damn!

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:01:38 -0800

Matrimonials. Must love long walks and meeting people. And aviator sunglasses.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:13:39 -0800

Love this quote from that Matrimonials page linked above: "Is there a man out there with intelligence higher than a stick-insect? If you have read Manto and can cook biryani like your granny, call me." Hmmm... how 'bout one out of three, there, honey?

By: rhymer

rhymer — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:45:50 -0800

That's one of the most fascinating things about India. You can have cities of a million people that very few people outside the country know exist.

By: Lleyam

Lleyam — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:45:03 -0800

Um, this.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:36:40 -0800

She's lovely, flapjax. I wish you the best. Bhopal still angers me to this day. Just like the Exxon Valdez and other industrial accidents, it's cheaper to pay the fine than it is to do the right thing.

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:40:56 -0800

Cough

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:24:23 -0800

This Khaufpur is nothing if it has not a Garden of Forking Paths.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:11:34 -0800

You'd hope that Bhopal has a future filled with promise, because in my experience it's the most miserable, depressing shithole I've visited in all of India, even if you can somehow ignore the in-your-face aftermath of the disaster.