So you read part 1 .... https://sowmyaticlife.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-textbooklover-part-1.html .... Part 2 somehow, in all its craziness, connects the debuts of two generations of Bacchans! Don't ask me how. Just read on. The Hindu paper's tribute to Keki Daruwalla prompted a google search which didn't reveal anything in the first attempt. He was being remembered as a poet and for his famous 'Love across the Salt Desert' which inspired the film 'Refugee' by JP Dutta that was the debut movie of Abhishek Bacchan and Kareena Kapoor. I was pretty sure I hadn't read any of his poems and I definitely didn't know about Refugee being inspired by a short story. In fact, I didn't watch Refugee. But as they say in Hollywood movies, I was too deep in it and the only way was through. Moreover, the gnawing and annoying half memories told me to solve the mystery or there would be no sleep. (it was already 12 in the night!). As I continued my search, it wa...
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