Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents by Minal Hajratwala

Author:Minal Hajratwala [Hajratwala, Minal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009-03-17T20:00:00+00:00

In December 1966, Bhanu bought her mother the first pair of shoes she had owned since traveling by ship from India: open-toed chappals, to wear to the physiotherapy graduation ceremony.

Around this time Bhanu also heard the second of what would later prove to be tiny hints of the future. She was choreographing a folk dance for a winter festival, and several of the young Narsey girls were in the troupe. The brother from America was in town, and sometimes chauffeured them to and from practice. On the last rehearsal before the performance, the older girls stayed back to make flower garlands. One of them, the daughter of Chiman Narsey, trying to get Bhanu's attention, shouted, "Bhanu kaaki, Bhanu kaaki!"

Bhanu looked at her, puzzled; kaaki was the word for a particular type of aunt, the wife of one's father's brother, and she was no kin to Chiman Narsey's daughter. Guiltily, the girl clapped a hand over her mouth. They must have been teasing one of the brothers at home, Bhanu thought, smiling. And she forgot all about it, almost.

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