The Indian Quarterly Magazine- The Kissa of Rashida Bewa

Rashida Bewa (widow) saw the shadowy figure clearly as she was Leaving the latrine with her badna. Fear fluttered in her chest at once. It looked like a white pirhan, perhaps a butter-coloured terry-cotton kurta. Sarowar’s Abba didn’t care for clothes of any other colour. But how would he appear here, for he had died twenty years ago…