DON'T PANIC

The Outsider within

"Let me tell you,an exile is a creature who, in spite of being banished from her land,never ever manages to sever the ties with the place where her umbilicus lies buried.A pitiful being,who combines one part of memory and two parts of imagination to create a land so magical,so unique,that she can never truly belong to the present-to the land that now offers her refuge.

For such is the power of past.So that when some familiar scent comes her way,she feels her guts twist and strangle themselves in misery and longing;her throat fills with spider eggs of nostalgia that hatch by the minute,climb up into her eyes,and run down her cheeks leaving behind watery trails."

[Edited] Excerpts from some article in one Sunday Herald excerpted from 'The better man' -Anita Nair