My Story
Highlights
whittled (Location 84 )
diffident (Location 102 )
sardonic (Location 106 )
vernacular (Location 108 )
clutches, (Location 111 )
gaily (Location 112 )
peculiar (Location 118 )
overwhelmed (Location 119 )
gaudy (Location 124 )
minarets, (Location 124 )
curtsy. (Location 125 )
From the dead no harshness could emanate, no cruelty… (Location 127 )
interminable (Location 129 )
ancestress, (Location 143 )
deportment. (Location 145 )
barons. (Location 150 )
connivance (Location 151 )
amorous (Location 153 )
chieftain (Location 153 )
hypnotised (Location 164 )
brigand, (Location 165 )
diabolic (Location 165 )
Austerity (Location 166 )
Kumaranasan, (Location 169 )
love was a beautiful anguish and a thapasya… (Location 170 )
calico (Location 172 )
ruffles, (Location 172 )
portico (Location 174 )
Blavatsky, (Location 175 )
Gurdjieff, (Location 175 )
Havelock Ellis (Location 175 )
Varahamihira. (Location 175 )
Vattezhuthu (Location 176 )
Phoenicians. (Location 176 )
witty (Location 179 )
eloquent (Location 179 )
durbar (Location 180 )
haphazardly (Location 185 )
greed (Location 186 )
alien (Location 188 )
limpid (Location 189 )
seemly (Location 189 )
squeaking (Location 190 )
spinster (Location 193 )
finicky (Location 194 )
profusely (Location 195 )
caparisoned (Location 197 )
tattoo (Location 198 )
gleam (Location 203 )
Prostrate (Location 206 )
monologue (Location 207 )
sentinel (Location 209 )
damson (Location 210 )
chastity (Location 213 )
Ambergris… (Location 216 )
The Nairs believe that the dead return for their treasured possessions and therefore they throw away or gift away to the poor the clothes and other possessions of the dead as soon as the cremation is over. (Location 217 )
The good ornaments are hastily melted and reshaped for the living, changing the design so totally that the ghost-owner does not get a chance to stake a claim. When we die, we die. (Location 218 )
bleary-eyed (Location 226 )
tugged (Location 228 )
proficient (Location 238 )
solace (Location 239 )
privy (Location 239 )
outlaw (Location 241 )
infatuated (Location 243 )
obscenity (Location 243 )
weals (Location 244 )
kilted (Location 245 )
urchin, (Location 253 )
snob. (Location 253 )
decorum (Location 254 )
the dab of turmeric on the cheeks, the sandal-line on the forehead, the collyrium in the eye and the betel in the mouth. (Location 258 )
leucodermic (Location 261 )
all that the man had to do was to hand over to the woman a length of cloth and when she accepted it she became his wife. (Location 274 )
daintily (Location 277 )
prating (Location 279 )
erring (Location 283 )
wench. (Location 283 )
licit (Location 296 )
profanities (Location 309 )
unguent (Location 320 )
sorcerers. (Location 325 )
somnambulist (Location 337 )
scimitar (Location 339 )
guttural (Location 340 )
cymbalist. (Location 352 )
collyrium. (Location 353 )
Varahamihira (Location 376 )
effeminate (Location 377 )
Vallathole (Location 379 )
firmament (Location 379 )
tremolo, (Location 383 )
carbuncles (Location 392 )
whimpers. (Location 1354 )
scuttling (Location 1356 )
disarming (Location 1918 )
sigrees (Location 1929 )
Casuarina (Location 1970 )
scabrous (Location 2284 )
nymphomaniac. (Location 2338 )
tinctured (Location 2345 )
coves (Location 2345 )
swoon. (Location 2349 )
tranquillisers (Location 2353 )
acquiescent (Location 2354 )
virile (Location 2354 )
subservience (Location 2359 )
spiteful (Location 2361 )
imperceptibly (Location 2362 )
rebuttals (Location 2369 )
accusations. (Location 2370 )
misgivings (Location 2370 )
socialism. (Location 2374 )
scrupulously (Location 2374 )
marionette (Location 2381 )
thrusts. (Location 2383 )
ignominy (Location 2383 )
prospect (Location 2385 )
Dravidian (Location 2385 )
fraternising (Location 2389 )
infiltrators, (Location 2391 )
civet (Location 2397 )
snarl (Location 2398 )
desolate (Location 2403 )
ballads (Location 2409 )
arid (Location 2412 )
disillusionment. (Location 2417 )
idyllic (Location 2420 )
accursed (Location 2444 )
concupiscence, (Location 2446 )
serfs (Location 2446 )
grievances (Location 2448 )
slyly (Location 2452 )
vacuously (Location 2452 )
whetted (Location 2453 )
succumbed (Location 2462 )
Mrs Grundy (Location 2471 )
agriculturist. (Location 2475 )
haunches (Location 2489 )
ischaemia, (Location 2501 )
mottled (Location 2507 )
glossy (Location 2510 )
gleaming (Location 2511 )
obliterated (Location 2527 )
corollaries (Location 2535 )
placid. (Location 2566 )
nonchalantly, (Location 2580 )
unsnarl (Location 2587 )
domiciles (Location 2615 )
precincts (Location 2616 )
corrugated (Location 2617 )
paltry (Location 2635 )
solicitude (Location 2652 )
entreat (Location 2667 )
ineffectual (Location 2683 )