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Question
Discuss the character of Brinda in the novel ‘The Financial Expert’.
Solution
Introduced as a seventeen-year-old, very beautiful girl, her father a tea plantation owner lives with her in-laws, suffers a lot under her husband and endures his open deceit and misdeeds.
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