“Ha! Please. That thing is not sensitive. Did you hear him? Arreh bapre, he called God’s name in vain. How he can say like that? Even a deaf thing like you must have heard. It’s . . . outrageous, outrageous I tell you,” she says, clinging to the dramatic English word she has unexpectedly discovered in her vocabulary. “I won’t have God’s name taken in vain by a Hindu bird in a decent Muslim house like this.”
