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Big Ammachi

This character marries at age 12 and creates a new life with her husband at Parambil.

Digby Kilgour

This character attends medical school in Scotland and goes to India to learn to be a surgeon.

Mariamma

This character is born at Parambil and becomes a doctor. She learns that the man who raised her is not her father.

Philipose

This character is born at Parambil. He wants to go to college, but he has to leave because of deafness. He becomes a writer. He marries and has a son who dies.

Elsie

This character grows up on an estate. She becomes an artist. She marries and has two children by different men. She fakes her death when she contracts leprosy.

Lenin

This character’s family dies from smallpox when he is nine. He thinks he wants to become a priest, but he joins the Naxalites instead.

JoJo

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