... eyes", his desolate state remarkable in its pathos: his "shirts and pants soggy", "black raincoat stained with mud" and "bag stuffed with books is falling apart". He imagines he is at home as his "eyes fade homeward". The climate is humid: it is the monsoon season. The father starts getting off the ... , alienation and cold-hearted treatment he faces, both outside and inside his home. Just as the torrent to sweeps over him, like the cold water over his brown hands, it leaves behind pangs of mental sorrow and pain to which he is afflicted everywhere. This same pain seems to suck the life ...

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