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Vice-Chancellor
Asha is one of Nanda Kaul’s and the Vice-Chancellor’s many children. She was a lovely child who grew up to be a lovely woman who married well. She spends most of her time fussing over her own daughters Tara and Vina. Nanda Kaul finds Asha to be her most trying child. It’s Asha’s idea to send Raka to Carignano to recuperate.
Asha Quotes in Fire on the Mountain
The Fire on the Mountain quotes below are all either spoken by Asha or refer to Asha. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1, Chapter 4
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In her last letter Asha had written, with her usual heartless blitheness, that she had persuaded Tara to try again. Tara’s husband was given a new posting, this time in Geneva, and Asha had persuaded her daughter to go with him, to give him another chance. There was the little problem of their child who was only just recovering from a near-fatal attack of typhoid, but Asha was sure they would find a way to deal with this minor problem. The main thing, she had trumpeted, was for Tara to rouse herself and make another try at being a successful diplomat’s wife. Surely Geneva would be an excellent place for such an effort. “Why, why shouldn’t she be happy?” Asha had written and Nanda Kaul had not replied, had been too disgusted to reply.
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Asha Quotes in Fire on the Mountain
The Fire on the Mountain quotes below are all either spoken by Asha or refer to Asha. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 1, Chapter 4
Quotes
In her last letter Asha had written, with her usual heartless blitheness, that she had persuaded Tara to try again. Tara’s husband was given a new posting, this time in Geneva, and Asha had persuaded her daughter to go with him, to give him another chance. There was the little problem of their child who was only just recovering from a near-fatal attack of typhoid, but Asha was sure they would find a way to deal with this minor problem. The main thing, she had trumpeted, was for Tara to rouse herself and make another try at being a successful diplomat’s wife. Surely Geneva would be an excellent place for such an effort. “Why, why shouldn’t she be happy?” Asha had written and Nanda Kaul had not replied, had been too disgusted to reply.
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