The wails of mourning reachedHiren’s ears long before the news of her husband’s death did.
Brightly clad women, their faces covered in grief by thelong colorful folds of their sarees, stumbled their way on to the open groundin front of Hiren’s home. Their shoeless feet, bloodied from the long journey,were ignored in their urgency to attend to their mourning.
Hiren, unsure of what to do and overwhel...