Proust in India

Mayank Austen Soofi

It was a very circuitous route that led me to a table at a little coffeehouse in Delhi. And there, via his blog, I "met" a young man whose persistence in trying to share his love of (or at least profound interest in) Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past) with anyone willing to join his weekly forays into the novel is at once poignant and admirable. The comments that follow are equally wonderful (this is his first entry; I believe there are more than 30 now): http://www.thedelhiwalla.com/2011/12/19/city-reading-the-delhi-proustians-i-indian-coffee-house/