KANAI SPOTTED HER the moment he stepped onto the crowded platform: he was deceived neither by her close-cropped black hair nor by her clothes
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There was no bindi on her forehead and her arms were free of bangles and bracelets,
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It occurred to him suddenly that perhaps, despite her silver ear stud and the tint of her skin, she was not Indian, except by descent.
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the neatly composed androgyny of her appearance seemed out of place, almost exotic.
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Although unmarried, he was, as he liked to say, rarely single:
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Nirmal had smiled in surprise. “What did you expect? A jungle?”
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But there are so many people here!”
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thirty years had gone by since
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When people praised him for his linguistic abilities, his response was usually to say that a good ear and a good memory were all it took to learn a language,
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Nilima had told Kanai then that his uncle had remembered him on his deathbed: he had said something about some writings that he wanted to send to him.
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