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To me it is the story of a city that by its very nature of absorbing for more than 300 years a continued multifarious and rich cultural history of diversity into its DNA offered Zeenie the chance to be a player and observer and gain a wealth of experiences that would shape her befittingly in her later years.
The Calcutta of this book was plural in the way that daily life is plural, messily, in the way that a grandmother bakes a Christmas cake for her Muslim neighbour's grandchildren because they are downstairs and they love cake.
