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Fire and Tamarind

The Photograph

Chapter 10 · free to read

The last four pages were blank. Something had been living behind them for thirty years.

His father, maybe twenty-two, arm around a boy with a saffron cloth on one shoulder. The date on the back was four years before Arjun was born.

Ten centimetres of wet counter. Neither of them moved back from it.

Somebody at the dark end of the lane shouted for two ragda. The moment went over like a dropped glass.

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