Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)

Rama stood near the P & O steamship office with Mano close to her side. She’d been to Bombay before, giving lectures for the Noble Women’s Society, but she’d never been to the port. The crowds jostled more than those at train stations. Stevedores wheeled overloaded wagons across the wharf. They paid no attention to pedestrians, let alone a small woman and her child. She hadn’t felt this way since Srinivas had put them on the train from Ahmedabad to Bombay all those years ago. How old was I then? Thirteen? Now I’m twenty-five, and I still don’t know where destiny takes me.