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"Dei" is the most complex Tamil term and title to refer to a person. If I like you or want to fight you, I might call you "dei". So, here is this occasional newsletter, enjoying the exploration of every other day alongside some deis.
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Dei, no reason why you can’t ask. (opens the original)
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Five minutes before closing time, I push open the glass doors of the bhavan with the might and urgency of a 911 distress call, asking for Milo. The elder waiter anneh looks at me perplexed. He should not entertain my request. It is well past the kitchen’s operating hours. He need not accept my order or anyone’s for that matter. It is perfectly reasonable for him to refuse. He is still holding a chair by it’s hind legs when it occurs to him that I have neither made an order for a cup of Milo nor
Dei, flee your soft prisons if you dare. (opens the original)
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Dei, On the way to buy gardening shears, my eyes meet a little girl in a pink tutu. She is about four years old, learning to pirouette inside a mall ballet studio, the kind that has mirrored glass for walls and impatient parents for exits. There are other girls of similar age and height, but all I see is her. Everything about her presence is a defiance. The blush pink leotard magnifies her dusky tones and white teeth. Her hair cropped short unlike everyone else’s, excusing her curls from being w
Dei, it is her, the non-playable character. (opens the original)
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Dei, A woman and a man are standing side by side in queue at a KK Mart. He is buying rolling paper. She is waiting for the transaction to be over. The cashier is a heavyset Indian lady who refuses to be dethroned from her stool. This is evident from the way all restricted items have been arranged within a reaching radius on her left and right. The man requests for rolling paper in two sizes. The cashier lets out a sigh and reluctantly alights from her seat to source his wants. This is arduous. I
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