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1. The first story. 2. Mallika. 3. The second story. 4. Madhu. 5. Anuradha. 6. Shanta. 7. Padma. 8. Rukmini. 9. Mallika and Padma, after. Acknowledgements.
The stories in this collection are set in the early eighties, and Anjana Appachana wonderfully captures the raw, vibrant energy and optimism of a time when we drank chai for thirty paise, and twenty thousand rupees spent on gifts for the boy’s side was an enormous amount of money for middle-class Indians. Her characters strain for a place beyond the boundaries of a prescribed way of life in urban middle India: a hapless college student gets gated a few days ...