A Heart Is Such a Heavy Thing
Arun Karan is twenty-four and ready to get married. A procession of fathers bearing photographs of their daughters visit Arun's father, Ram Karan, who …
On the art of flattering the powerful: "That is how you speak to powerful people, Fatso," his father said. "They know you're exaggerating, but they like it, and you keep your pride because you also know you're exaggerating."