![]() ![]() The only person who really makes a fuss over Lenny’s birthday is Cousin. ![]() The typically absentminded Oldhusband gifts Lenny a book and reads her a short dedication about how great and influential people leave behind “footsteps on the sands of time.” Lenny spends time thinking about this phrase. Godmother is distracted and is even nicer to Slavesister than normal. Even the dessert they were supposedly making for Lenny’s birthday is really for this guest. They are having their sister Piloo’s husband, Dr. Godmother only gives her a quick hug and kiss before continuing to fight with Slavesister. Her mom fusses over her for a few minutes and moves on. India has been divided after all,” she says.ĭespite this momentous event, Lenny is most concerned with the fact that it is her birthday but no one is paying attention to her. Lenny, her family, and her city are now Pakistani. ![]() She describes them as “playing British gods under the ceiling fans of the Faletti’s Hotel” because there were “deal out Indian cities like a pack of cards.” With a stroke of a pen, the committee gave Lahore to Pakistan, while other nearby cities are given to India. At the beginning of the chapter, Lenny mentions the Radcliffe Commission, a group given the task of drawing the boundary between India and Pakistan. ![]()
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