The sun hadn’t yet crested the gulmohar trees in South Delhi when the smell of cardamom chai began its daily conquest of the Mehra household. At sixty-five, Padmini Mehra—the undisputed matriarch—ruled the kitchen with a rhythmic clinking of bangles.
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