Nothing about his appearance marks Heera Lal, an ageing Delhi tailor, as extraordinary. The two loops of string wrapped around his ears to hold his spectacles in place suggest poverty, not eccentricity. His favourite topics of conversation are politics and the lottery. Perhaps his least favourite is partition, the cataclysm that split India into one Muslim and one multi-religious state upon independence from Britain more than half a century ago.
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