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Essay: On provincial time

A meditation on quieter ways of living in places away from the frenetic metropolis and on what could happen when the need for speed touches even these lives

A view of the road to Siliguri. “This is perhaps the only time “slow” is a compliment. “Slow time.” I’d hear it occasionally as a child, from my father’s friends and colleagues who would come to visit us in Siliguri, the sub-Himalayan town in Bengal where I grew up.” (Vikas Newar)
Updated on May 24, 2024 08:22 PM IST
BySumana Roy
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