The Wistful Silence

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Act I The docks at Bombay breathed out the stench of rotting coconuts and diesel, a thick, grey fog that clung to the ankles of every laborer hauling crates of opium and indigo. It was a city of leased lives, where the chawls rose like four-story stacks of brick against a sky the color of old tea, and the air tasted of salt and impending eviction. I was thirty-two, a constable in the Bombay...

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