Vocabulary in Context
She kept the tone "absurdist."
What is ridiculous or surreal?
Children in her hut.
What is being a teacher?
Leaving the farmland of Vidarbha.
Bringing out tea to a soldier in Vidarbha.
What is marrying Manju into a better class?
Returning to Vidarbha after trying his luck in Mumbai.
Who is Anil?
Scattered among dessicated farms were new schools....
What is dried out?
Taking classes for a B.A.
What is going to college?
Working under the auspices of the REAP program.
What is teaching a kindergarten class?
Purchasing a pair of bell-bottom jeans.
What is mimicking the dress of the middle-class?
Brother of Sister Paulette, the nun.
Who is the Mauritius man?
The villagers had paid a steep price for their seeds: genetically modified ones called "hybrids."
What is a mixture?
Wanting to take another year of study.
What is earning a B.Ed to become a qualified teacher?
Meeting a politician during her birthday dinner.
What is trying to obtain money and power?
Not wearing shoes with heels when you have height.
What is the advice of a Shiv Sena man to enter the upper class?
Mahadeo, a drunk who is unwilling to work.
Who is Asha's husband?
[H]e paid his laborers a thousand "rupees."
What is Indian currency?
Playing the victim for a group of middle-class citizens.
What is joining the Indian Civil Defense Corps?
Taking advantage of the nonchalant attitude of Robert Pires.
What is trying to become slumlord?
Tiny hoops.
What jewelry do high-class women wear?
Caller during Asha's birthday party.
Who is the police officer?
They were waiting...[for]...improvements in "infrastructure."
What is a system of public works?
taking free training in an office building.
What is selling life insurance?
Taking a rigged test and courses at Open University.
Studying the first-class people and shedding her slum ways.
What is a migration of class?
The prime minister from Delhi who helped farmers.
Who is Manmohan Singh?