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Aishwarya Kapoor

Why Vijayadashami Is When Indian Families Finally Say the Thing

The announcement that was already decided

The decision was made in June. Maybe July. You knew it, and somewhere in the architecture of shared meals and careful topic changes, they knew it too. But knowing and saying are different countries, and Indian families are practiced at living in the border zone between them.

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