Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?’ ‘No, Ma.’ ‘Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?

Renita D'Silva

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She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. ‘Get to the point; don’t allow the subject to digress’ was one of them

Renita D'Silva

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What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?

Renita D'Silva

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You put cow dung on my face?’ ‘Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?

Renita D'Silva

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What use is status if you have no one to share it with, Dad?

Renita D'Silva

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I watched the rows and rows of chappals left by devotees outside the Hindu temple and wondered if the homeless boys who sometimes steal our chickens ever steal them, and if they do, are they punished, and if so by whom?

Renita D'Silva

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What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!

Renita D'Silva

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Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

Renita D'Silva

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She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish orange leaf swirling in the wind and transformed it golden yellow. She liked that it wasn’t a leaf she recognised, that she could name or associate with her past.

Renita D'Silva

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I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do.

Renita D'Silva

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