Standing in front of the school building was a towering Englishman and, facing him, a gaunt, smallish Bengali man. In his hands the Englishman held a set of books tied with a red ribbon and on his face he wore a charitable smile. The Bengali man’s hands were joined in a namaskar. The photograph had been taken at least thirty years ago, but the smiles on their faces had remained undimmed.
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