![]() It begins with Dimple, a hijra pipeman at Rashid’s, who is prettier than most women about how she was castrated before the age of 10 and compelled to become a eunuch how she was forced to sell her body in order to live how she was drawn towards opium and the solace it gave her and how she came to become a pipeman at Rashid’s. Narcopolis is a maze of human temperaments, which if grasped, will surely move your heart. ![]() The story is both simple and complex at the same time simple because of its unfussy structure and complicated because of its knotty characters – the lives they lead, the dilemmas they face and the contexts that led them into being what they are now – opium addicts. The narrator of this story is an opium pipe – a pipe older than life itself. ![]() “I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay.” ![]()
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