Algren At Sea (2010)
Algren At Sea
“- The Travel Writings JULY 17TH: PORT OF BOMBAY III.KALYANI-OF-THE-FOUR-HUNDRED When Mahatma Ghandi came to the south of India he was met by four hundred whores of Bombay.
“How may we become good women once more, Master?” their spokeswoman, one Kalyani, asked the Mahatma.
“Go to the spinning wheel, my children!” the Master instructed Kalyani-of-the-Four-Hundred.
“How is the wheel to save us, whom the loom has brought such shame?” Kalyani asked The Master.
CAGE I Kalyani’s parents were weavers. ...They owned their own looms, upon which Kalyani’s parents, her two brothers and herself worked. They also owned their own house.
When Kalyani was sixteen she married a man from Bombay, who did not have living space for a wife. So Kalyani went to live with her mother-in-law until her husband found accommodations.
Kalyani’s mother-in-law mistreated her, as she had wanted her son to marry another girl; yet Kalyani could not go back to her own home. So she lived unhappily with her mother-in-law, hoping her husband would soon send for her.MoreLess
“How may we become good women once more, Master?” their spokeswoman, one Kalyani, asked the Mahatma.
“Go to the spinning wheel, my children!” the Master instructed Kalyani-of-the-Four-Hundred.
“How is the wheel to save us, whom the loom has brought such shame?” Kalyani asked The Master.
CAGE I Kalyani’s parents were weavers. ...They owned their own looms, upon which Kalyani’s parents, her two brothers and herself worked. They also owned their own house.
When Kalyani was sixteen she married a man from Bombay, who did not have living space for a wife. So Kalyani went to live with her mother-in-law until her husband found accommodations.
Kalyani’s mother-in-law mistreated her, as she had wanted her son to marry another girl; yet Kalyani could not go back to her own home. So she lived unhappily with her mother-in-law, hoping her husband would soon send for her.MoreLess
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