Akshi Singh

Akshi Singh’s memoir about reading Marion Milner, In Defence of Leisure, is due next year. She teaches at Glasgow.

Acrumpled​ hundred-rupee banknote falls from a man’s pocket. The camera shows Gandhi’s face on the note. A young girl picks the money up, and asks her mother what she should do with it. Her mother says she can get herself chocolate, buy a doll or give it back. The girl hands the note back to the man who dropped it. Against a background of sentimental music, a voice announces:...

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