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summary (Done on Nov 17) themes: marriage status norms and barriers destiny it's a marriage of convenience they have everything but love ma'am drew parallels to matrimonial ads - or advertisements in general, where both parties have something to offer, exchange In her perspective, she is lucky to even be married, since she has no value as a person in society otherwise. But she's not fortunate as much as she is really, really stupid.

Themes: morals and age inconvenient truths fragile safety in forgotten truth read more "Was doing, to delight us, a comic Dance... " Innocence of childhood - gravity of the situation later understood "Became an altar then, a sunny shrine" Nani's memory sacrificed for some truths "With that question ended Nani. Each truth Ends thus with a query. ..." Truth dies when its credibility is questioned. Also, question remains unanswered - answered, instead, with a question The fact that it is not answered means that the Grandmother has not made peace with it consciousness of speaker differs vastly from that of those (adults, elders) around her Deliberate movement from fact to emotion to philosophical questioning "... It is this designed Deafness that turns mortality into Immortality, the definite into The soft indefinite. ..." Nani the woman of flesh and bone dies, but the idea of Nani remains.

I I am Ganga Snow from the mountains birth in the glacier The keeper of water contains water I am the plains I am the foothills plains and foothills is where it goes Note the commonness that the Ganga brings to the mountains, plains and foothills I carry the wishes of my streams Wishes = prayers; streams -> where it comes from To the sea I am both man and woman No gender to achieve commonness I am paper boats for children entertainment I am habits for the fisherman livelihood I am a cloud for shaven monks mysticism I reflect all movements does not stand for any one particular activity omnipresent I am the bridge unifier, transport I am the fort and the archer protects, like in Narnia Taking aim I am the great dissolver of men two meanings - either it renders all differences obsolete or, it is a morbid reference to the ashes of the dead I give life and I take it too. II I go out into the world I am the world As Ganga runs its course along its t...