Imagine being married to someone for decades, performing all the duties expected of a wife... Only to learn that all this while, your husband never loved you.
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The bathing of the black lingam had also been seen from the footpath of Sri Manmatha. For a newcomer almost totally ignorant of Hindu ritual, it was quite something.
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It was in the summer of 1989 in the predictable and insular environs of small-town Bengal that the ghosts first arrived.
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I told her my surname. She shook her head. She meant the one that came before the surname and before the English first name on my passport.
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She realised that as Noor Ahmad she at least felt like a person. As Nooria, she returned to being a shadow. Returning was harder than changing.
