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Question
The sister does not appear in the play but is central to it. What picture of her is built in your mind from references in the play?
Solution
Manjula Nayak’s bestselling book features her real-life sister, Malini, who was a victim of meningomyelocele which made her undertake a series of operations, reducing her existence to misery. We find some glimpses of Malini of how she was more intelligent, more attractive, and vivacious than the author herself and a very sensitive person. It was as if “she radiated life from the wheelchair to which she was confined.” It was Malini herself who shifted with Manjula in Jayanagar and adjusted herself beautifully to the smaller house.
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