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Amitav Ghosh

The Glass Palace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

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Part 5, Chapters 28-30

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Part 5, Chapter 28 Summary

Dinu borrows a bicycle and returns to the ruins where he’d been photographed alongside Alison. He photographs the site each day, eventually finding another ruin deeper into the jungle. After Alison confirms that there are more ruins, he travels further into the jungle. The two have hardly seen one another since Dinu arrived and he is struggling to tell her that Rajkumar wishes her to sell the rubber plantation. When Alison asks Dinu if she can watch him photograph the ruins, he stumbles and accidently offends her.

Arjun and Hardy prepare for their battalion’s departure. They catch a train to Bombay and Arjun finds that he has been assigned his own cabin on the ship. When he boards, he watches Hardy become entangled in an argument with a British sergeant on the docks. Arjun races to help, but by the time he arrives, a British officer has intervened and sided with his fellow countryman, humiliating Hardy.

Onboard the ship, Hardy comes to Arjun’s cabin and tells him that he is seeking revenge. When Arjun calls for calm and reason, Hardy storms out of the cabin. After two days waiting in the docks, their ship sails west. The officers gather to open a sealed envelope containing their orders: they are to head to Singapore, so the ship slowly changes direction.

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