Feb 20, 2017 11:41 PM
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Out of all my ancestors, it’s my dashing grandfather I like to hear about the most. I love to hear about how amazingly handsome he was, how rebellious(read scandalizing) he was and how many reforms he had brought about in his village. He had died young and probably that has immortalized him as this attractive, revolutionary young man. When my relatives meet me, they have a look of wonder in their eyes as they whisper to my mother ‘She looks exactly like him’. I would love to know more about him but it’s always hushed whispers, a shake of head and the topic is changed.
Why do scandalous ancestors sound more alluring to the present generations? Is it some kind of a forbidden knowledge that keeps us wondering about them? Or do we hope that some of that glamour may have been inherited by us and maybe that makes us more interesting and hopefully, less mundane.
And that is exactly what ‘Heat and Dust’is all about.
