The Moonless Night by Anirudh Deshpande

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The Moonless Night - Novels

by Anirudh Deshpande in English Short Stories

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Imarti handed the ten paisa coin to old Prithiviraj, picked up the packet of salt he had kept on the narrow glass topped shop counter and walked away from the shop towards the doctor’s house before he opened his toothless mouth. Old Prithiviraj, the bald Marwari in a dhoti with white drooping whiskers had leased the shop in 1936 from the municipal committee and was known to offer unsolicited advice to his customers. Imarti recognized the louts from the dhobi ghat on Shakur Ki Dandi who stared at her hips and passed lewd comments from outside Kaluram Halwai’s shop next to the general store. “Have a hot spicy samosa with us” Billu, the dark one in a red shirt shouted after her. “Please accompany me to the company bagh for some ice cream after that my darling” Saleem, with thin legs encased in tight black terricot pants added his bit in a high pitched voice. “Listen you two behenchods, am I dead that she will go with either of you?” Fateh, in a lungi and short dirty white kurta smirked. Some urchins in torn clothes gorged on stale fritters thrown to them in a brown paper envelope by the swarthy oily haired Halwai grinned.