Jaipur Literature Festival — Whorehouse of Writers & Selfie-Junkies
I’m fitter than the pole-dancing spanish strippers & south delhi street bitches, so when on the night of 12 th January ’23, I had a [Google-verified] heart attack, it surprised me more than when my ex-fiancé sold her engagement ring to buy a Sabyasachi lehenga & dumped me for a klepto-alcoholic-bipolar lezzie. But BetterThanGod-Google had fucked up — I had acid reflux, not a heart attack. Google-promoted YouTube doctors recommended me a diet that declared all foods & drinks toxic-as-AmberHeard barring hot-ginger water & skinny-milk oats. After 7 days of ICU diet, I woke up at 4am, didn’t shower, boarded the 6am train, with Örlã, to Jaipore. What I like about Örlã is her forrestgumplikecuriosity and childlikesugarrush. But it also means Örlã, if not tied-to-a-tree, is highly likely to disappear, trespass, pulldownherpants, or hop in a Fiat with a pedophile if he lures her with a cloud of cottoncandy. It was a risk to tag her along, but she is almost the last person who ...