“Ashima thinks it’s strange that her child will be born in a place most people enter either to suffer or to die. . . . In India, she thinks to herself, women go home to their parents to give birth, away from husbands and in-laws and household cares. . .”

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Responses

historical context
historical context

cultural context
cultural context

both historical and cultural context
both historical and cultural context

neither historical nor cultural context

cultural context