Basmati Blues Page #3

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Uh, no, I can't.

I've never done anything

like this before,

so I really need to focus

on getting ready.

There's just the one wonder,

really.

Thank you, but I have over

100 specimen slides to prepare.

Your plan is to show slides

to farmers?

Mm-hmm.

Linda, these are simple men...

Honey, we're glad you've come

to drag these savages

-out of the Stone Age.

- Oh, but I don't think--

Farmers are the feet on which

the nation stand.

I know.

I know that.

I'm with you.

[chatter resumes]

[rooster crows]

When tomorrow comes a'

Face the dawning a'

When tomorrow comes a'

Embrace the dawning 4'

I wander through

These doubts a'

For some sign or reason a'

And wonder if the road a'

Will know the way a'

-. Where's the future r

- Good morning, Rajit.

I thought would be dawning a'

Wake up, Rajit.

And when's the moment

Night is followed by day a

Tomorrow has begun 4'

What now is to be done a'

When tomorrow comes a'

-:
Today a'

-:
When tomorrow comes a'

Tomorrow comes

Face the dawning a'

The million miles uncharted a'

And uncertain I'

The future used to be

So far away a'

-. Now's the moment it seems I

-[father] Good morning!

Though alone

With just these dreams a'

To believe in a'

I'll find

The strength within a'

And let the future begin r

To believe in a'

Break on through the night

Take in the light a'

For a season

Break into the day a'

And make your way

Through believing a'

Break on through the night

Take in the light a'

For a season r

Well, tomorrow has begun a'

What now's to be done a'

When tomorrow comes a'

Today I

When tomorrow comes a'

a' Tomorrow comes r

Face the dawning a'

When tomorrow comes a'

a' Tomorrow comes r

Face the dawning a'

[indistinct]

[cell phone rings]

Dad!

YES.

The lab is equipped.

There's rice,

and air circulation

and people who hang things

on the walls.

It's perfect.

Ish.

[glass shatters]

[gasps]

[Linda] That was nothing.

Just a little deviation

from the norm.

Sorry.

[sighs]

I can't believe

I'm back to this. I--

[grunts loudly]

It's a stem borer egg.

You know they'll kill

half the crop.

I was studying a stinkweed

called hyzarium geranus

that would have killed these.

Ah. I told everyone

you went away on a vacation.

Yeah, you just plant them

between the rice rows

and you don't need any

expensive pesti--

They thought I was on vacation.

You know how they are.

"Your son is very smart.

He found a way

to get out of working."

[grunts]

Sorry.

Not smart enough to figure out

how to pay for college.

They mock you out of insecurity.

I want to know how this

makes you feel.

Trapped.

Suffocated.

Ooh.

Wait.

I might have enough money

to buy stinkweed plants.

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