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Joyce Harris
Samir Singh prefers to have affairs with older widows, and Geeta is his current mistress. Geeta lives in a well-appointed house in the ex-patriot area of Jaipur, and she inadvertently becomes the host of Lakshmi’s sexual encounter with Samir; Geeta is also the person who eventually reveals this tryst to Parvati. Geeta’s pain at Samir’s betrayal shows just how many women his lasciviousness has hurt, even though he never seems to feel remorse.
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Geeta Character Timeline in The Henna Artist
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Chapter 13
...in the European district, where wealthy expats live. Lakshmi knocks on a familiar door, and Geeta, Samir’s latest widowed mistress, greets her. Geeta thinks Lakshmi has sachets, but Lakshmi explains she...
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...is a girl. As Lakshmi fumes about how easily Samir will move on from this, Geeta stops her. “You will not come again,” Geeta orders, and Lakshmi agrees.
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Chapter 17
To Lakshmi’s horror, Parvati explains that Geeta told her the whole thing: how Lakshmi and Samir had had sex, leaving behind the...
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