Gyandev admitted that, growing up, the girls were given less food. Dipu, with the breathtaking lack of self-awareness typical of a child so spoilt, believed that everything had been split equally between the siblings—though obviously the women ate after serving his father, then him. And it was he who got to choose what to watch when they sat to watch the TV they had recently acquired. (Action films mostly, Sunny Deol was his favourite.)

