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The Practice of Contradiction

DADIMA PRACTICES yoga every day.

She had been studying abroad in London and just returned to India when she began her practice, around the same time she married a naval officer. His mother suggested she drop out of college after the wedding, which she did. That was the year her first son was born, soon followed by her second, my father.

Each of these days, Dadima did yoga. When she left Bombay in 1980 to go to Colorado while her husband stayed behind

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