Word: mukunda
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...opens with a first-person voice describing a sepia photograph. This voice then disappears from the novel until, in the final part of the book, it breathtakingly reclaims the narrative: "I am Mukunda. This is my story." Much of the book is organized in this cyclical...
...tale begins in the town of Songarh, where factory owner Amulya rescues Mukunda, the illegitimate baby of an employee's son, and puts him in an orphanage, taking on the responsibility for the boy's upkeep. Meanwhile, Nirmal, Amulya's younger son, legitimately fathers a daughter, Bakul, whose mother dies during childbirth. Mukunda is later brought home from the orphanage to work as a houseboy, and he and Bakul become close childhood companions. The family naturally disapproves and separates them at adolescence, but they reunite in adulthood and become lovers. By that time, everybody's lives have changed irreversibly...
Although the best showing of the weekend was by Peterzan and Mukunda in the doubles...