Contents
I
Insignificant Beginnings
Between Bogart and Amitabh Bachchan
My Mother at JFK
Working
Love and Rummy
Romance in Many Movements
American Horror
For Nancy Drew
The Blessed
Recipe for Discontent
Inferior Goddess
II
Mantra for a New Bride
Merle Oberon after the Accident
Audrey Hepburn and the Westerns
Blue
Water and Wine
Madame Destiny
Knots
Red Mantra
Wilted
III
The Masala of the Afternoon
Before Color
Trademarks of Desire
That Shade of Green Known as Blooming
In the Kitchen
Lemons: A Love Letter
Sunlight and Chilies
After Developing
Summer Mantra
Lost Tongue