Naga noticed that in all the newspaper articles, the paragraph concerning Tilo was always a set piece: “Sister Scholastica called me to say that a coolie woman had left a newborn baby in a basket outside the Mount Carmel orphanage. She asked if I wanted to take her. My family was dead against it, but I thought that if I adopted her I could give her a new life. She was a jet-black baby, like a little piece of coal. She was so small she almost fitted in the palm of my hand so I called her Tilottama, which means ‘sesame seed’ in Sanskrit.”
