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When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his…

Kiran Desai death fathers identity loss

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned…

Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss life people

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss change past present

Of one thing, though, she was sure: "I want to travel," she confessed. Books were making her restless. She was beginning to read, faster, more, until she was inside the narrative a…

Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss beauty reading travel world

Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss mountain nature outdoors

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss sadness

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg fo…

Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss begging human labor man mercy

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?

Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss fate

Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the effort of it, the grammar of it, pulled you up; a new languag…

Kiran Desai language

When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.

Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss lies truth

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Unscramble KIRAN 5-letter words that start with K 5-letter words that end in N 5-letter words containing IR 5-letter words containing AN 5-letter words with K and I

Section of a curve

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R

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C

Hint 1 meaning

The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.

Hint 2 anagram

RAC

Hint 3 another clue

AID WHEN GOING TO COURT

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