The date is April 15th. Things get mixed up in India (such was the case, the Nawab had explained to Olivia, with Baba Firdau's shrine: It was built on the palace grounds by one of his ancestors to honor someone who had given him shelter, but it later became sacred, for one day a year, to women wanting to become pregnant). On the day of that year's "Husband's Wedding Day," the narrator accompanied Inder Lal's mother and her friends on their "pilgrimage" to the shrine: the women.....
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