Kiran Nagarkar lived his entire life like a bomb-defuser with ten seconds to save the Universe... whilst watching his favourite films, reading his favourite books and meeting his favourite people in the same ten seconds.
He could never understand why the rest of us were so cavalier with time. He would say, in his low, always-breathless voice, his enormous hooded eyes brimming with reproach, “Those of you who are healthy, who don’t have to live with constant pain, who don’t struggle to breathe, don’t you see how phenomenally lucky you are?” It would be many years before I understood that he was dead serious.