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Mr. Talukdar is Anjali’s father and Nilima’s husband. Mr. Mitra tells the reader that he once had an important manufacturing job, but he currently lives in a cramped apartment building, showing his low socioeconomic status relative to the Mitras. Mr. Talukdar welcomes Mr. Mitra and Mrs. Mitra into the apartment but doesn’t show any warmth toward him.
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It was clear from the size of the cramped compound, with the ceiling overhanging the porch only a few feet away from the adjoining wall, that Nishant had been erected where some older house once was, and which had been sold off to property developers and contractors.
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Get LitCharts A+He'd held some sort of important position in an old British industrial company that had turned into a large public-sector concern a decade after independence: British Steel, renamed National Steel. He was now standing next to a television set, whose convex screen was dusty, and talking to someone.
Mr. Mitra seemed to remember that Mr. Talukdar had two sons in America, and that the sons had children. But Anjali had no children, and that might have made things worse for her.
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Mr. Talukdar Quotes in Real Time
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It was clear from the size of the cramped compound, with the ceiling overhanging the porch only a few feet away from the adjoining wall, that Nishant had been erected where some older house once was, and which had been sold off to property developers and contractors.
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Get LitCharts A+He'd held some sort of important position in an old British industrial company that had turned into a large public-sector concern a decade after independence: British Steel, renamed National Steel. He was now standing next to a television set, whose convex screen was dusty, and talking to someone.
Mr. Mitra seemed to remember that Mr. Talukdar had two sons in America, and that the sons had children. But Anjali had no children, and that might have made things worse for her.
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