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was woken up by kohl eyes telling her to get off the train; it had reached the last stop. Shobha stumbled out of the train and joined the crowds climbing up the stairs, on their way out. Some lecherous stares and ‘accidental’ bumps later, she reached the rickshaw stand irritated. The song still stayed in her mind. As the rickshaw sped off she tied her hair back together to stop it from blowing. She thought of Anand’s grandma who she had met for the first time after their wedding. After a few preliminary questions she had hastily deduced that Shobha didn’t know enough about managing the home and its responsibilities. She said that Shobha’s generation was full of women who had turned lazy because of the appliances that had replaced the woman’s duties at home. Shobha had to fight the urge to talk back rudely to her and hastily retreated from the home of old rustic furniture and creaking beds. She had almost fought to keep her tongue in check, otherwise the old woman would have informed the entire clan that the new bride had no culture—didn’t respect the old and conclude that Anand had done a big mistake marrying her. She sometimes wondered that too. The Flame of the Forest had started shedding its red flowers and Shobha knew she had reached her destination when she saw the tree. She could never talk to Anand about such things — as trees. He always found it strange when she 138
gave the directions to him with trees as landmarks. Yesterday, when she had been giving directions about the new movie theater, “Turn right next to the Gulmohur tree and keep walking straight and stop just a few meters before the old banyan tree…” she had halted, noticing that amused look in Anand’s eyes. She knew he found it silly (though he didn’t say it). He had later asked her if she knew any shops or roads passing near the movie theater. Dear Shilpa, she continued, things are really very different here. The city is so crowded that I wonder how people manage to walk without bumping into each other. I was standing at VT station the other day and happened to look at the people I felt suffocated just looking at them. So many of them! We had a different picture of Bombay, the kind they showed in the movies, you know the tall buildings and the skyline but there is so much dirt and garbage here, everywhere around. And no, I haven’t seen a single filmstar since I arrived here. Not even one! Her rickshaw stopped at a traffic signal and Shobha covered her nose with her dupatta. Still not used to the smoke and the fumes, she coughed, felt breathless. A young boy selling gajras of jasmine flowers approached her; the flowers had yellowed in the vehicle fumes. She looked away but he requested her to buy them till the rickshawallah scolded him away. Just then the traffic moved. 139
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ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: Monsoon c
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© Copyright by Jesal Harin Kanani
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Acknowledgements Thanks to, Mummi f
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SUMMERS IN AGAAS All I knew was I h
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water - only its coolness cascading
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(that too all dressed in white) cam
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We ran out together, beyond the ice
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At Agaas, the train chugged in only
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forgotten my Mom? I peeked outside,
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prasad (actually mohanthal) which h
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We sat under the sun, looking at a
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- cry. I stared and stared at the o
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IRISH COFFEE “Keep the front rack
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“But you said that customers alwa
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Internet too, sometimes when there
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Rohan joined us the day after Holi,
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are all the Anime DVDs and game CDs
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“I would warn you against spraine
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and mothers‐in‐law and called g
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you ignore, refusing to pay it due
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The next day I did something, I had
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dog‐eared pages. All I had to do
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it was time to get ready for office
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After the play, we moved outside to
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“Social work.” A half mocking s
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Clutching her khadi bag close to he
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advanced application of Calculus. W
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“Tarkala. How far is it form here
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“I am Megha,” she said wonderin
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the far corner of the room and twil
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only one I have right now. I will n
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Megha waved her hand. “No, no you
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on the brown walls. “Bén, you wi
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He wakes up slowly, carefully, so a
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He walks into the bathroom, stoppin
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engagement, Smita ben had become qu
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the models step out reinvigorated,
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filigreed, breezy black party saree
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loves to open and close, close and
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fair, slim, homely, convent educate
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continues watching the TV and then
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Bhaveshbhai steps out of the buildi
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large oil cauldron. Bhaveshbhai ste
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some pigeons flutter away and land
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occasions. Preetiben splits the tal
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thousands in the earlier generation
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