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Then said Almitra, 'Speak to us of Love'

Published Friday, November 7, 2003

They say it started with a rumor. And so it did.

In the pungent city of Dhaka, as sugarcane sellers peddle down the street between Lexuses and rickshaws, the rumor cartwheels, car to car, mouth to mouth, ear to ear.

Gibraan Rahman, the Managing Director of Transcom International, is having an affair with his barren wife's sister. His wife Shobha's withered, drooping, malfunctioning womb can bear no fruit. Though wrinkled in grief, she pretends otherwise. "Rumor!" she says shooing the unwarranted espionage-reports away, "I have faith in Gibraan." But in her locked bathroom,...

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