The Curator Who Knew the Job
Dhruba Hazarika went to the Nehru stadium in Guwahati before the match to meet Sunil Barua, the curator
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
Dhruba Hazarika went to the Nehru stadium in Guwahati before the match to meet Sunil Barua, the curator. Click here and scroll down to read the piece.
I stared at his knuckles, fascinated by the small, round hardened fleshy blobs on the back of the palms. They were hands that had caressed soil and earth, felt the bricks and the stones, hands that had dug into bags of urea, fingers that had separated dubori grass from the rest. It was not just a farmer’s hands. There were the hands of a sculptor and I kept on watching, fascinated.
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo