The Treatment Of Bibi Haldar Bibi Haldar is a 29-year-old woman who suffers from a disease that no doctor, priest or therapist could quite understand and therefore each of them offered differing 'cures'. Bibi was infamous for her illness, and everyone knew of her suffering. ''She was not pretty. Her upper lip was thin, her teeth too small. Her gums protruded when she spoke.” All Bibi wants is to live life like any other normal girl: get married, have children and be loved. Unfortunately, her illness precludes her from achieving the desired normalcy. As the story unfolds, Bibi eventually finds her 'cure', not through any medical prescription but in a way anyone could ever have imagined. Jhumpa Lahiri Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri was born in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Brought up in America by a mother who wanted to raise her children to be Indian, she learned about her Bengali heritage from an early age...
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