The Elephanta Suite
“Thanking him for his willingness, they granted it immediately, e-mailing him a list of new clients, with specifications of product lines for outsourcing—sports clothes, leather goods, brass fittings, molded plastic tubes for patio furniture, gardening implements, lamp bases, glassware—and Kohut added, "Glad it's such a success," because no one had ever asked for an extension. Most had wanted to come home early.
After the meetings, or the flights to Bangalore and Hyderabad—usually a day in each ...place and the late flight back to Mumbai—he went to Indru's room rather than the Elephanta Suite. He lay in the half-dark listening to her stories, which she told in a monotone: how her father touched her—the shame of it; how her mother beat her, blaming her, and her father sent her away to her auntie's village; how her auntie locked her in an unlit room with the grain sacks and the rats; how, when Indru went to the police, they didn't believe her; how the village boys threw bricks of cow-shit at her, and when her uncle happened by to rescue her, he drove her on his motorbike to the riverbank, where he dragged her through the bamboo.MoreLess
After the meetings, or the flights to Bangalore and Hyderabad—usually a day in each ...place and the late flight back to Mumbai—he went to Indru's room rather than the Elephanta Suite. He lay in the half-dark listening to her stories, which she told in a monotone: how her father touched her—the shame of it; how her mother beat her, blaming her, and her father sent her away to her auntie's village; how her auntie locked her in an unlit room with the grain sacks and the rats; how, when Indru went to the police, they didn't believe her; how the village boys threw bricks of cow-shit at her, and when her uncle happened by to rescue her, he drove her on his motorbike to the riverbank, where he dragged her through the bamboo.MoreLess
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