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probably his niece, and he felt ashamed that he didn't know her name -- was taking Polaroid snapshots of Changez with his visitors, and the sick man was enjoying himself hugely, pulling faces, then kissing the many proffered cheeks with a light in his eyes that Salahuddin identified as nostalgia. "It's like a birthday party," he thought. Or: like Finnegan's wake. The dead man refusing to lie down and let the living have all the fun.
"We have to tell him," Salahuddin insisted when the visitors had left. Nasreen bowed her head; and nodded. Kasturba burst into tears.
They told him the next morning, having asked the specialist to attend to answer any questions Changez might have. The specialist, Panikkar (a name the English would mispronounce and giggle over, Salahuddin thought
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