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Part I (Pages 3 - 64)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ghosh, Amitav. The Hungry Tide. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2005.

• This novel is written from the third person perspective and in the past tense.

• Part I is titled The Ebb: Bhata and the first section is titled The Tide Country.

• Kanai Dutt was a translator taking the train from New Delhi, where he lived, to Canning, to meet his Aunt Nilima and go with her for a visit to where she lived in Lusibari, an impoverished part of the tide country.

• On the train platform at a Kolkata commuter station, Kanai saw a young woman he knew was a foreigner, despite her darker skin and close-cropped hair.

• On the train, Kanai began reading some pages his Aunt Nilima had sent him from his late Uncle Nirmal's notebook. Nirmal had wanted Kanai to...

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