from An Indian Journey by Jan Morris
Friday 12 December 2008
Bollywood poster
No folk-art is livelier than an Indian film poster, which characteristically includes a space rocket, a clutch of skyscrapers, a distant view of Kashmir, a group of skin-divers, a submarine, two or three Mercedes cars and a fattish young hero, centre front, who, while gazing moistly into the eyes of his beloved, seems to be searching her long black hair for nits.
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That is perhaps the most delightful single-sentence essay I have ever read!
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