Ooty,” says 82-year-old Jagannathan, “is like a tumbler.” A tumbler?
“Yes, more or less like a tumbler. How much can you develop in a tumbler?”
Showing his cupped palms and later, tracing a circle with his index finger, and looking out into the buildings stacked up on the hills, he says, “In that (tumbler-shaped) place you develop. How can you develop? You can’t develop.
“That’s the problem.”
On a recent morning in Ooty
