Reminders on the morning after:<\/p>\n
A mala<\/em> of jasmine flowers,<\/p>\n a mound of red silk which had<\/p>\n enveloped me whole.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A large palm plant, watered with<\/p>\n soda, empty Coke bottles swimming<\/p>\n in the flooded pot. A large house, flooded.<\/p>\n A reunion reminiscent of drowning.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A circle of lawn chairs, where<\/p>\n the men had gathered, eating naan<\/em> by<\/p>\n the tear-fuls. The boy had sat intently<\/p>\n all night, trying to claim manhood early.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A tousled bed \u2013<\/p>\n from the gaggle of wives, who\u2019d<\/p>\n piled on top, a plethora of jokes I was either<\/p>\n too young or too American for.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A gift, a book on Swami Vivekananda<\/p>\n who shared my birthday,<\/p>\n a winning smile from the boy,<\/p>\n unreadable, really.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And a string: a donkey pi\u00f1ata,<\/p>\n slung from a broken chandelier.<\/p>\n Subject to sharp taps of broom handles,<\/p>\n from six-foot-tall uncles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It took the beatings gracefully\u2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reminders on the morning after: A mala of jasmine flowers, a mound of red silk which had enveloped me whole. A large palm plant, watered with soda, empty Coke bottles swimming in the flooded pot. A large house, flooded. A reunion reminiscent of drowning. A circle of lawn chairs, where the men had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3AJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13976,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions\/13976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}PRITHA BHATTACHARYYA<\/a><\/p>\n
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