The Party

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"Welcome sir. How're you?," and the keeper opens the door to Noah's Ark. Up a flight of wooden steps and in. It's past nine thirty and the evening has just begun. Where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless Because the things you say and the things you do surround me While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words Dying to believe in what you heard I was staring straight into the shining sun - "Foster's for you sir?," asks Mangesh the cashier. - "Yes, the same." At the Ark on a Wednesday night in Bandra. It's getting crowded by the minute. Couples lost in drinks and kisses. Stags drowned in half pegs and beauty of shapely nymphets on the dance floor. Wishing they would walk away with one of them. East Indians - half Koli, half Portuguese - mostly make up....