Table of Contents
Part I — Growing up
- 1. Aiming at the Heavens
- 2. My only ambition
- 3. Kettledrum
- 4. Stories from the Mahabharata
- 5. A singer and a poet
- 6. Who wants to study?
- 7. The lion and the goats
- 8. Washing my father's feet
- 9. My mother's wish
- 10. My father and his swami brother
- 11. My father and the occultist
- 12. The bone in the throat
- 13. My father's occult power
- 14. The dhoti
- 15. The last illness
- 16. Consolation from Krishna's Conch
- 17. Indian superstition
- 18. Food for the dead
Part II — Escapes from death
- 19. "My prayer is stronger than smallpox"
- 20. The saviour boat from the depths of the unknown
- 21. How sweet and tempting is sugar cane
- 22. My mother in the eyes of a lion
