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The Garden of Shifting Sand
Nicole Dakin
“It was 1987 when I first stepped into that garden. The sun skittered off the concrete that had once been painted white, but was now slashed and peeling. The intense heat and the cloudless blue sky would have never gone together in Bombay, and seemed so far even from the sterile coolness of the aeroplane …”