Holding Yourself Solely Responsible for all Your Problems

is kind of asinine

NOTE: This is a fresh excerpt from a draft of Part One of my new book, where I experiment with blending memoir and self-reflexive narrative techniques from cultural anthropology.

Photo by Sharath G.: https://www.pexels.com/photo/meenakshi-temple-gopura-madurai-india-10271157/

On my second day in Tamil-speaking south India in 1995, I ventured into the Old …