In the book the English Patient, Kip’s perspective that is the most radically changed. After he hears about the bombing of Hiroshima, he is undone. He develops an intense hatred towards the Europeans, their intension to colonize the Asian countries and recalls what his brother had told him when he joined the British army – not to aid the English. He leaves abruptly, with the forlorn Hana beseeching him, “What have we done?”

When Ben Gorham spoke about returning to Chembur after fifteen years and being shocked that everything had changed; the exception was the balmy, spicy aroma that filled the air, awakening Ben’s childhood memories of home and family. I realized that minute this fragrance was a metaphor of a journey, a carrier of more than jus but of generations of memories.

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