This side for Hindustan and this side for Pakistan. Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Mountbatten are names I hear. And I become aware of religious differences. It is sudden. One day everybody is themselves - and the next day they are Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian.
People shrink, dwindling into symbols.
Carried away by a renewed devotional fervour she expends a small fortune in joss-sticks, flowers and sweets on the gods and goddesses in the temples.