he said that upstairs, chchi did not like her house functioning like a hotel but the separation was upstairsc chac chacha's decision. he broke the brahman way is with a tumbler of whiskey which he didn't want his young daughter to see. partly that upstairs his wife craved freedom and didn't want to consult her sister-in-law or mother-in-law who lived with the brother every time she went to the market to buy vegetables. living there subsidize his brother's sloth. he noticed his brother did not work as hard as he did or have his burning ambition. he began to want more for his daughter. he began to think of the future of where progress and india was headed and how he might secure a place in the new order. he began to dream of things. a car, television, short sleeved shirts from houston bush relate gold watch today go from his wrist. a cellphone with allowed status enhancing rain done. as he relayed to me in a series of conversations he began to see in his own family what he had not seen before and what an indian was not supposed to see or acknowledge, the resentment and backbiting and inwardness