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derelicts. She emerges more confident revelling in herlntimacy with the American idiom and her extensive familiaritywith the landscape. She even goes to the extent of adoptingthe popular prejudices regarding the mysterious East and theinscrutability of oriental character. Though born to the veil,her protagonist Jyoti braved everything to successfully smuggleherself into the United States. Jyoti/Jasmine/Jase/Jane withan equally large choice of surnames through marriagefliaisonnever ceased to dazzle and delight her American admirers andbenefactors with her linguistic and intellectual attainments.Jyoti is the daughter of the villager from Hasnapur in Punjab,Jasmine is the wife of Prakash Vijh, Jase is the consort ofTaylor and Jane is the mother of the child of Bud Ripplemeyer.Llke all orientals, Jyoti too had to fulflll her destinytransmitted to her from time to time by her stars. Indianmarriage ceremonies (horoscope astronomy, rituals etc) stillremain a myth to Westerners. Utilisiny this situationMukherjee has Jyoti Vijh widowed by a bomb concealed in atransistor by a Khalistan terrorist. Unable to go the UnitedStates when Prakash was alive, she is bound by honour tofulfill her dead husband's ambition and so she goes to Americawlth the dead man's suit as though the suit would compensatefor the man,. Throughout her journey and in America sheencounters sex and violence. Jyoti slashes her own tongue