their child, has resisted the blunt assaults of time. The percentage is high of happy Indian marriages.
{FN2-3} An anchorite; one who pursues a SADHANA or path of spiritual discipline.
{FN2-4} When I discovered by these words that Mother had possessed secret knowledge of a short life, I understood for the first time why she had been insistent on hastening the plans for Ananta’s marriage. Though she died before the wedding, her natural maternal wish had been to witness the rites.
{FN2-5} A customary
words for doing harm. I have always remembered her counsel, and followed it.
My boil was surgically treated. A noticeable scar, left by the doctor’s incision, is present today. On my right forearm is a constant reminder of the power in man’s sheer word.
Those simple and apparently harmless phrases