1)  Let us help you find your love marriage.  Caste no bar!  Results guaranteed!
      - flier on a pole outside bangalore

2)  What do you mean, where does the music come from?  Where does the music ever come from?  The guy says to the girl Something is on my mind, and the girl says Really?  What is it? and somebody in the orchestra hits a note and they sing.  That’s where the music comes from.
 - Morrie Ryskind on the set of a Marx Brothers movie

3)  Love is candy from a stranger.  Only it’s candy you’ve had before and it probably won’t kill you.

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5)  the memory of a friend:

she said But you’re hindu and my family is muslim, and he said I can change.

the doctor said Are you sure? he said Just be careful, and then he probably winced but did not cry.
he said Now marry me, but she said You’re so black, who would ever marry you? and then she probably laughed.

her mother said he was just a silly boy with a scarred penis, which is different than being a muslim.  besides, her cousin was very beautiful and he was 18 - looking to settle down.  they said he drank poison that night.

the doctor said it’s a good thing his friend found him there on the floor.  she said it would be a love marriage, like in a western, hollywood-type movie.

6)  “you look better in a t-shirt”

7)  staring.  still staring.

8)  the first meeting:

         

9)  even scientists don’t know why sweet water flows eternally from a cow skull at the top of the mountain in the distance.  even the groom doesn’t know the bride.  even you can’t understand.

10)  the slanting rays of the setting sun ignite the upturned red plastic chairs with an intense glowing light,  exeunt white boy.