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Sandra Wagner-Wright
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Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
Literature & Fiction
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Does Rama need a husband?
Rama is a lovely young woman, a scholar, and a lecturer. Brother Srinivas accompanies her. Now they are in Sylhet. Rama hasn't told Srinivas she finds a man there attractive. And she isn't really looking for a husband. But this is India in the late 19th century. Srinivas knows that if anything happens to him, Rama has no future. In this excerpt Srinivas is trying to broach the subject with Rama.
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Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
“Brother,” Rama commented a few days later, “do you realize this is the first time I’ve looked after a house?”
“I do. It troubles me you have no home. This house isn’t ours, and we aren’t a proper household.”
“Whatever do you mean? Of course we’re a household.”
“Rama, I’m your brother, not your husband.”
“I don’t require a husband.”
“I disagree. What if something happens to me? What will you do?"
“Don’t speak of such things.”
“I must. I promised Mother to look after you,
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