Summary

“Provide, Provide” is set several years earlier than the previous two narratives. It begins with a description of how K.K. Harouni’s manager, Jaglani, makes a complicated series of arrangements that gain him profit of his own at the same time as they are benefiting Harouni.

Jaglani’s closest relationship is with Harouni’s driver Mustafa who, one day, asks Jaglani to give his sister a job. He says that she needs help to leave her unhappy marriage. Jaglani agrees to give her a try. Later, after she cooks him a meal that he enjoys, he decides to hire her. Only at this point does narration reveal her name, Zainab. Over time, the relationship between Jaglani and Zainab becomes sexual, but Zainab refuses to stay the night, always returning home. For his part, Jaglani (who had married and become a father at a...