![]() ![]() ![]() The detail about the commercial in which people sign the Gayatri Mantra suggests that the world is blind to the religious-based violence that occurs in India. This metaphor also suggests that the city has real problems, analogous to the grandmother’s described health problems, that it wants to pretend do not exist in order to attract foreign investors and tourists. By contrast, the government is busy trying to market itself to the world-the metaphor that compares India to an elderly woman plays off of the idea that under gender oppression, women are like objects to be bought and sold. Low-caste tears are ignored by the society and by the government. Presumably, because the baby is “blue-black” she is of low-caste, and this status might be why her tears, in particular, are futile. ![]()
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