After cornering the dutch auction, the seller was brass enough to send him the whole lot without one.

The words of those verses which are regarded as containing a peculiar recondite meaning are ranged in squares in such a manner as to be read either vertically or boustrophedonally, beginning at the right or left hand.

These new set of decisions may or may not be put into operation, but the process of constructing suspicion and othering of the Jummas is already in place. Jummas cannot be called “adibashis, Jummas cannot be recognised in the constitution, Jummas have to be called “khudro nri-goshthi [insignificant people], Jummas cannot talk to anyone without a chaperone, government officials will prevent celebration of indigenous peoples’ day – the list goes on.

The story had a fablelike quality.