Question

1. Why did Gouri's family move to the city
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Answer 1

Answer:

For over 40 years of my older brother’s 60-year-long life, the overarching family narrative was the fact that he dropped out of the hallowed halls of IIT, half-way through. And this, in the 1970s — when ‘dropping out’ was a phrase newly heard in these parts; voices were dropped and faces turned red in shock or sympathy at the scandal of it all. This was the time when batches upon freshly baked or newly minted batches of engineers from here emerged to be wooed by employers and potential in-laws with equal fervour. Many simply flew off to the U.S., and blazed trails that are still visible.

There was not a whole lot of swotting, sweating or family tension over ‘IIT entrance’ back then. Just my brother and his books, and parents who did not need to hound, push or track. I was nine then, and when he emerged from his study for a break, cracking his knuckles, he would allow me to look through a small microscope he had been gifted on his 16th birthday. We would examine dog fleas, onion membranes, parts of plants.

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