In fifteen months much befalls his family. Burfi marries Joyce – altogether confounding Shyamanand – and is yanked away from home by work. At fifty-eight, Shyamanand retires from government service. Urmila endures the ordeal of a perturbingly late menopause. They quit their government flatlet of ...
In Madna itself, for example, the Chief Revenue Divisional Commissioner and Agastya’s boss-to-be, on scanning the headlines in The State of the Times, merely said ‘Hmmm’ and focussed with more intensity on the Love-Like-Hate-Adore game that he was scratching out on the side on a memo pad. Whereas...