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She continued, In fact, I had been to the Siddhivinyak temple here – it’s a huge,
huge temple Shilpa, and it is said that a wish made there always comes true. I was
standing in the line and I saw this beggar, a child really and he looked so miserable. They
never show this in movies, do they? He didn’t have any hands, Shilpa and I just saw him
and I couldn’t control my tears. It was embarrassing because I know people were looking
at me, but I couldn’t control Shilpa, I really couldn’t.
At her stop, she alighted from the rickshaw, the song still playing in her
mind. She fumbled looking for the home keys. The elevator stopped and she
swung out, knocked on her neighbor’s door. Her neighbor opened the door and
the wailing sound of her infant pierced Shobha’s ears. After some hasty
pleasantries she asked for her home keys, opened the apartment door and gave
the key back to her, eager to shut her door. When she looked at the rasamalai she
had cooked for Anand uneaten on the table she stopped humming. She
remembered the day she found all the cards she had given Anand yellowing
away at the edges in his cupboard, the shirts which were never used were
invariably the ones she had gifted, his amused look when she tried to tell him to
listen to the birds, his frequent interruptions when she sang, his obsession with
work, his unconscious but impatiently moving feet when she spoke about her
daily affairs, his shifting eyes, focusing on her, refocusing on the window, back
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