How could we have allowed the instinct bred within us over the centuries to draw lines and never cross them, an infinity of lines, ever-smaller lines, ever-sharper distinctions? I grieved for Didi’s generation of “girls of good family,” who put caste, duty and family reputation before self-indulgence.
-Bharati Mukherjee
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