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Greta Rana MBE (awarded Order of the British Empire in 2005) is an author and poet born in Yorkshire, UK. She has been living in Nepal for over forty years. She first ventured into literary fiction in the 1970s after two short genre novels, Nothing Greener and Distant hills and a popular cliff-hanger written for a weekly newspaper titled Against the Winds of Tomorrow. Her work in mountain areas was to provide the themes for her novels as she observed a country left behind and finding transition difficult against the ethnic and cultural divides and the suffering caused by the desperation of poverty in one of the harshest terrains on earth: her insights have also been sharpened by periods living in Laos and Afghanistan and work in and visits to Pakistans Northern Areas.

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Greta Rana

Greta Rana, 2012

All rights reserved. No part of this publication
may be reproduced or transmitted in any form
or by any means, without the prior permission of the publisher.

Characters and significant events in this book are not fictitious; but
personalities, interactions and thoughts, and words are figments of the authors
imagination.

First published in 2012
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ISBN: 978-81-86939-62-8

Contents

Pattharghatta

K adam Magar shivered feebly but perceptibly.
Age had deprived her of warmth. She should have felt warm enough here in the jungle, but somehow, the grief of losing even the one whom she feared as much as loved made her body cold: her mind was cold too. Her grandson coughed, Grandmother, would you go to the river?

The last one I went to the river for was your father, nearly twenty years ago. He was killed by that one, through his greed wanted to show he was up to it. Now its his turn. Now that should convince them hes not up to everything.

Grandmother, shush. Kadams grandson Dev appealed to her, looking around and peering into the trees as if the shadows of the jungle camp hid ghouls that were about to accost them.

You want me to be quiet? What do you think they can do to me? But they will do their worst yet, believe me.

Do what grandmother?

Stupid oaf, youre just like your father. Dont you understand? Its not he, the one you all adore so blindly, who can do anything to you now. Its them, the others. Well not be safe afterwards.

We can go back to the village.

What, to your uncle? Hell like that, having all your brats landing on him. He hates us because he believes he was the one who lost out no benefit he said, no benefit to me that my mother was Jung Bahadurs wet nurse. Well, what did he know about his father and that bitch, my mother-in-law? Spoiled he was by all your grandfathers wives the barren ones with the one daughter between em.

She fell silent. Her grandson waited. He didnt know how old she was. Older than anyone hed ever met. She had been thirteen or fourteen when she came to be the maharajahs wet nurse, carrying his father, her second born, all the way from Dhulikhel. There was no choice. She had to keep feeding him so that she could feed Jung.

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