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Chapter 1

• There is a heat wave in Shahkot, India and everyone is praying for the monsoon. Many suggestions for ways to end the heat wave are given.

• Vermaji invents a giant fan to bring in the monsoon clouds, and the police offer to sponsor a frong wedding performed by the temple priests.

• Plants grow limp and weak, and tourist buses turn around and leave. Food is scare, and supply planes fly over but do not stop in Shahkot.

• Kulfi Chawla is pregnant and grows to huge proportions. All she can think of is food, and Kulfi walks to the market everyday and bribes the food sellers for delicacies.

• Mr. Chawla, her husband, complains to his mother about the arranged marriage and his mother, Amma, tells her son to be patient.

• Mr. Chawla buys books on babies and Amma gives Kulfi advice but Kulfi ignores both of them and...

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