Word: motherland
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...Flashbacks of Ritwik's dreadful childhood - hallucinations of his late abusive mother terrify him in his college room - animate the plot, driving Ritwik to seek a "snack of oblivion" in anonymous gay sex in public toilets. They also cause him to work through, on paper, his attitudes to his motherland, for interleaved with Ritwik's story is that of Miss Gilby, a peripheral character in Rabindranath Tagore's novel The Home and the World, whose life Ritwik reimagines in a book he is writing. He uses the story of Gilby, a middle-aged English governess to the family...
...Wilf says she “snapped back” out of the jaws of consulting, and her subsequent political career is part of an effort to give back to her motherland and the hallowed halls of her alma mater...