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PREFACE                                              xiii

            I don’t blame her. I know where she’s coming from. I was
            there, twenty years ago.

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            I grew up in an era of great social change in India. The social
            and economic reforms post-independence had resulted in
            better facilities for education, created more jobs in the cities,
            and had, inadvertently, resulted in the breakdown of the joint
            family system. My parents’ generation was well-read and
            aware of societal changes the world over. Global travel was
            becoming more common, and people began to go abroad for
            employment.

































                  My parents were fond of books and Western music — interests that
                               I automatically inherited.
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