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3:00 PM: English Literature. We read from Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest.’ But Mr. Vijayan (who visits unannounced) crosses out ‘Caliban’ and writes ‘The British Resident.’ No one laughs. No one ever laughs.

7:00 AM: One handful of rice. One cup of buttermilk. The older boys say that Vijayan once made a boy eat his own slate for complaining. I believe them. rex vijayan scholarship college 1870s

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12:00 PM: Staff fencing. My opponent, a boy from a toddy-tapper clan, breaks my left thumb. I break his nose. The instructor, a Malayali man called Kunjali, applauds. ‘Pain is data,’ he says. 3:00 PM: English Literature