North Wind
“The speaker was Katalamma Pillai: a young Woman of vigorous, athletic presence, dressed in a smartly tailored emerald green tunic and trousers. She was sitting cross-legged on top of a low storage cabinet in her mother’s office. Katalamma had brought the fugitive halfcaste home to her mother’s house: a pleasantly old-fashioned establishment in the green heart of Woman Town. B.K. Pillai was a distinguished Reformist lawyer. This was her office. The large room was lined around three walls with ca...binets, stacked with generations of different recording media: tapes, disks, cards, charged paper, flat-readers; printed books. The daughter of the house sat cross-legged on top of one of these cabinets, expoundingA few clerks were at their desks, visored, deep in research. They paid no attention. The public office hours were over; this was no longer livespace. Katalamma could do no harm. At her own desk, B.K. was helping Bella to complete her application for reverse gene-therapy.“Look at the Traditionalist marriage ceremony.MoreLess
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