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The Das House
The Das family’s house on Bela Road in Old Delhi represents the way that family, culture, and geography continue to root people and connect them to the past, no matter how hard they try to…
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Baba’s Gramophone
The old gramophone that Baba constantly plays at an ear-splitting volume represents stagnation, historical continuity, and the power of silence. It originally belongs to Hyder Ali’s daughter Benazir, but Baba finds it while…
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The Well
The well behind the Das family’s house represents the siblings’ childhood—and their struggle to make sense of it. While they know of the well’s existence from a young age, they almost never see it: they…
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