He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts, as well as the source of the information.

I have two contacts on my scope.

He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.

[A]nd one reason why young Satyajit decided to cut short his study at Santiniketan was his growing sense of the place being ‘an isolated island’ and his desire to go back to Calcutta ‘in order to keep abreast of things’. One of the things he had missed in the esoteric surroundings of Santiniketan was the film-going experience he so loved: ‘to relax in the coolness of a cinema, and lose myself in the make-believe world of Hollywood.’