Saturday, May 01, 2010

glimpse

It dawned upon him that the body travels but the mind stays unmoved, as confirmed by the great Arab traveller Ibn Battuta. He realized that sitting in his North Calcutta house, he had a pretty accurate idea of what the world outside was like.

By not travelling, he felt more travelled. Both in space and time.

- from The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers by Sarnath Banerjee; referring to my favourite character Digital Dutta.

3 comments:

Nor said...

They should have Facebook-style "like" buttons here.

Ramya said...

You're back!

Get the book, it's simply amazing.

Nor said...

Will do next time I'm in Chennai, my paltry monthly allowance permitting.