‘Mrs. Luthra’s Stove’

'I first heard about the custom of dowry from my Hindi teacher. Her name was Malika Puri and when she joined my school she couldn't have been older than 22 or 23 and was slim and petite and rather reticent with us, her pupils in year seven.'

Published in MsLexia Magazine Issue 54, 2012. Runner’s Up in the Mslexia Short Story Competition 20