In this memoir, Santha recounts her childhood experience of attending an Anglo-Indian school in a provincial Indian town with her sister, Premila. After the headmistress attempts to give the young girls the "pretty English names" of Pamela and Cynthia, Santha begins to feel a disconnect from her new counterpart.
In this memoir, Santha recounts her childhood experience of attending an Anglo-Indian school in a provincial Indian town with her sister, Premila. After the headmistress attempts to give the young girls the "pretty English names" of Pamela and Cynthia, Santha begins to feel a disconnect from her new counterpart.