vishal menon

“Putting both your hands in your pockets was against the rules. So was ‘running in the corridors’. However, fagging – acting as an older boy’s unpaid servant – and beating were still permitted. Corporal punishment could be administered by the housemaster or even by the boy named as Head of House.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“habit of calling each other ‘Jim’. No darlings or honeys or babes for them. In his low American drawl and her bright English chirp they Jimmed the Old Year out. ‘Hey, Jim?’ ‘Yes, Jim?’ ‘Happy New Year, Jim.’ ‘Happy New Year to you too, Jim.’ ‘I love you, Jim.’ ‘I love you too, Jim.’ 1990 arrived with a smile in the company of Jim and Jim.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“Half-Christian, half-Jewish, a ‘cathjew nut’,”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir