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"A Horse and Two Goats" takes place in the Indian countryside next to an ancient statue of the horse and a soldier, which is believed to protect the village but seems to be forgotten by the natives. The statue stands in the nowhere at the portals of a very small village, called Kiritam, it is so small that it is not even mentioned in any atlas and in the local survey map it is marked as a tiny dot. Most of the natives who live there are poor, rare educated farmers and deeply rooted in Hindu traditions. Many of them have never left the place, even though or because of that they think this place is the apex of the world. The earth around is dry and the sun is burning, only some cactus are growing around at the point where the story takes place. It seems that the story is placed in the 1960ies because of the typical khaki safari dress the tourist wears and because it was written at around this time.

By David