However this uninhibited flow of experience in her throws up certain questions that the other narratives have

either suppressed, not acknowledged or either failed to account for. This realm does not have historys linear
progression of and no casts to mould and reshape experience. Her experience as an Indian in London
becomes another model of citizenship that the book explores along with Partition Diaspora and the modern
Calcutta Middle class. However her personal experience first as a student in London and later that of marrying
a white man throws up an entire polemics about the diasporic communities.

When she narrates the story about the fantasy child Magda to the narrator, it is quite evident that the child is a
consequence of her mixed marriage (owing to the childs blue eyes and fair complexion). The absolute dread
that she associates with the imagined classroom of the child betrays her own sense of complexity as a woman
faced with questions about race in a mixed marriage. In this regard it is important that Ila in this conversation
displays a hyper emotionality, enough indication of some deep complex of feelings within her about race. Finally
when Nick betrays her, her insecurity as a woman and especially as a one disadvantaged due to her race
comes out in the open. Her life comes full circle from that anxious schoolgirl boasting about nonexistent
boyfriends to the distraught adult finding it difficult to come to terms with an unfaithful husband.