The temple had been her idea.
She had asked Kamla bai about it the evening before โ whether there was a mandir nearby, whether the Thakur sahab's household observed morning puja โ and Kamla bai had pointed her toward a small Shiva temple at the edge of the estate, a ten minute walk through the neem grove, old and quiet and smelling of stone and marigold and old incense.

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