Suraiya

Sadhana felt a warm sense of kinship with Suraiya in that moment.

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Thank you thank you, trilled Suraiya at high pitch, I'll have to take you out to lunch soon!

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Suraiya stepped into the room just as Sadhana was about to whirlwind out of it, which of course stopped both of them for a moment, Suraiya's eyes going round as she took in Sadhana's jacket, purse, car-keys, and look of frantic impatience, Sadhana's growing more impatient as she took in Suraiya's Kate-Moss-like thinness, her sheer gray tights, short gray skirt, sleeveless white blouse.

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But Suraiya was already smiling and waving and teetering away on her silvery heels out of earshot unless you wanted to shout, and of course, in the vicinity of a hotel—however modest—Sadhana didn't want to shout.

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I won't stay out too late, went on Suraiya, confidingly.

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Suraiya however did not appear to share this sentiment.

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Anand shared a legendary romance with the actress Suraiya in the 1950s, which ended when she was unable to marry him against her family's wishes since they belonged to different religions.

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Anand noted later that Suraiya was the love of his life, but he realized he couldn't really have been with a woman who held such notions.

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So she knew already when she entered the kitchen at eleven that morning and found the coffee-pot empty and no-one making fresh coffee but just standing around, talking—no-one meaning Eric Redding and the quite married Suraiya Krishnan, that is—there was more idle conversation brewing in the air.

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It seemed like work, the daily routine, living with Anil, writing code, testing, discussing database problems with the DBA, eating lunch, talking with Lindy or Suraiya or Barbara Dedyer, everything had become suddenly cottonwooled and meaningless, a sludge of routine she merely needed to get through.

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