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    The Glass Bead Curtain

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    Kalyani goes through an early child marriage in British-ruled Madras that ends her formal education according to local customs. She is educated at home by her Irish tutor and learns Shakespeare and Bacon. When she goes to live with her husband, she faces taunts from her mother-in-law for being taller than her husband. Her friend Athai uses her widowhood to continue her education at home until her death, when a secret about her is discovered. Kalyani overcomes funny situations to become a successful badminton coach with her husband's support. The story captures the changing social norms of the time through Kalyani's experiences with irony, pathos and humor.

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    Kalyani goes through an early child marriage in British-ruled Madras that ends her formal education according to local customs. She is educated at home by her Irish tutor and learns Shakespeare and Bacon. When she goes to live with her husband, she faces taunts from her mother-in-law for being taller than her husband. Her friend Athai uses her widowhood to continue her education at home until her death, when a secret about her is discovered. Kalyani overcomes funny situations to become a successful badminton coach with her husband's support. The story captures the changing social norms of the time through Kalyani's experiences with irony, pathos and humor.

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    Kalyani goes through an early child marriage in British-ruled Madras that ends her formal education according to local customs. She is educated at home by her Irish tutor and learns Shakespeare and Bacon. When she goes to live with her husband, she faces taunts from her mother-in-law for being taller than her husband. Her friend Athai uses her widowhood to continue her education at home until her death, when a secret about her is discovered. Kalyani overcomes funny situations to become a successful badminton coach with her husband's support. The story captures the changing social norms of the time through Kalyani's experiences with irony, pathos and humor.

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    The Glass Bead Curtain

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    Kalyani goes through an early child marriage in British-ruled Madras that ends her formal education according to local customs. She is educated at home by her Irish tutor and learns Shakespeare and Bacon. When she goes to live with her husband, she faces taunts from her mother-in-law for being taller than her husband. Her friend Athai uses her widowhood to continue her education at home until her death, when a secret about her is discovered. Kalyani overcomes funny situations to become a successful badminton coach with her husband's support. The story captures the changing social norms of the time through Kalyani's experiences with irony, pathos and humor.

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    Summary of The Glass Bead Curtain

    Kalyani and Athai, two feisty women, sail through the turn-of- the century Madras Presidency
    under British rule, despite archaic and tyrannical customs such as child marriage and gender
    bias. Kalyani goes through a child marriage that ends her formal education because of a
    prevalent superstition that married girls would be widowed if sent to school. Educated at
    home by her intrepid Irish tutor, Susan OLeary, Kalyani joyfully soaks in Shakespeare and
    Bacon.
    Packed off to her husbands home at the onset of puberty, she faces the taunts of her
    retrograde female-in- laws as she has grown taller than her husband Natrajan. Athai, on the
    other hand, uses her widowhood to advantage by pursuing her education at home. The family
    discovers an astonishing secret about her when she dies.

    Kalyani battles her way through funny situations to evolve as a successful badminton coach
    with the support of her husband and her father-in- law. Ambujam, her mother-in- law mocks
    her English and English education but is forced to seek Kalyanis help for her daughter
    Karpagam, rejected by her husband for not knowing English. Mani, Kalyani and Natrajans
    son breaks away from the tall, fair, convent-educated syndrome to bring home a dusky
    complexioned bride.

    Kalyanis story is written by Shailaja capturing the changing ethos of those times with irony,
    pathos and humour.

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