Farewell to Mumbai
December 18th 2010 I have been cursed by a transvestite.
At least I think I have, and that would explain why it is snowing at Heathrow.
You see, I was waiting at a traffic light in Mumbai when a ‘hijra’ – he may have been a hermaphrodite, a transvestite or just a man in a sari – came and asked for 10 rupees. When I refused he pulled a threatening face, waved his hands over my head, and said something nasty
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