Incantations and Other Stories - Anjana Appachana

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Incantations and Other Stories, Anjana Appachana, 1991, India, SHORT STORIES

"...A wife wonders: "When did she get to retire? Was there ever any retirement from cooking and cleaning?" A woman, many years after her sister's rape and death, still feels the grief and thinks about rebirth and religion: "There is much to say about Hindu philosophy, for belief brings with it acceptance and hope. It denies the eternal damnation of Hell, makes explicable the inexplicable, is the only logical answer to the tormented why."..."

(H.S., p. 356)