The Home and The World
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Mother, today there comes back to mind the vermilion mark1 at the parting of your hair, the sari which you used to wear, with its wide red border,...
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| Chapter Two |
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This was the time when Sandip Babu with his followers came to our neighbourhood to preach Swadeshi.
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| Chapter Three |
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I wonder what could have happened to my feeling of shame. The fact is, I had no time to think about myself. My days and nights were passing in a whirl,...
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| Chapter Four |
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I was never self-conscious. But nowadays I often try to take an outside view--to see myself as Bimal sees me.
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Everything is rippling and waving with the flood of August. The young shoots of rice have the sheen of an infant's limbs.
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| Chapter Six |
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A few days later, my master brought Panchu round to me. His zamindar, it appeared, had fined him a hundred rupees, and was threatening him with ejectment.
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We are men, we are kings, we must have our tribute. Ever since we have come upon the Earth we have been plundering her; and the more we claimed, the more she submitted.
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| Chapter Eight |
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Paragraphs and letters against me have begun to come out in the local papers; cartoons and lampoons are to follow, I am told.
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| Chapter Nine |
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For a time I was utterly at a loss to think of any way of getting that money. Then, the other day, in the light of intense excitement, suddenly the whole picture stood out clear before me.
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| Chapter Ten |
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I learnt from my master that Sandip had joined forces with Harish Kundu, and there was to be a grand celebration of the worship of the demon-destroying Goddess.
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| Chapter Eleven |
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With Amulya's departure my heart sank within me. On what perilous adventure had I sent this only son of his mother?...
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| Chapter Twelve |
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Today we are going to Calcutta. Our joys and sorrows lie heavy on us if we merely go on accumulating them.
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