The first time her mother told her someone would come to see her the next day, she felt an unknown but pleasant sensation course through her body. All her friends were already married.
'This was the game we used to play when in school. We used to memorize difficult (and mostly awkward) words of English to test each other’s vocabulary to beat the other person in the game. And with that objective in my mind, I had once asked her the meaning of rump, assuming that being a girl, she would feel shy and not answer, and I would win. But she answered with a straight face, without blinking even an iota of the eyelids,' writes author Dev Chaudhury.
The favourite jheel of a mohalla’s kids is bulldozed in front of their eyes
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