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India has the third largest number of Covid-19 cases after the United States and Brazil.

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People queue up to register and get inoculated with the Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at an camp organised outside an Hindu temple in Hyderabad on June 25, 2021.

Kekhrievoü Yhome is not the average Indian woman. She has light skin and slightly slanted eyes. She usually wears a mekhala, a woven fabric from Nagaland, and not a sari.

We met in Guwahati, the capital of Assam state, at a literary discussion in late 2010. I flew in from Banda Aceh. Khrievoü, as Kekhrievoü Yhome is called, took a six-hour bus ride from Kohima, the capital of Nagaland state.