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In their youth, in India, Farid and Farida had been exquisite, small-boned, elegant, quick in mind and body. They fell in love and went to college together…
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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“It is not easy to be a Minister's wife. People ask me to do all sorts of things that I don't like. They ask me to sit on welfare committees and give away prizes as cultural shows.”
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Babu Ram's wife was about to bear her sixth child and he hoped it would be a son, as they already had five daughters. He had a shop of his own, and …