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Chapters 1 & 2
· The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Desai, Anita. In Custody. Penguin Books, 1994.
· Chapter 1 opens on page 9.
· Deven is overjoyed when he sees his old friend Murad while buying cigarettes before class.
· It is Monday, Deven must teach, but Murad wants Deven to spend a half hour with him.
· Deven notes Murad’s teeth are black from betel and begins to feel less happy to see him.
· As they walk across campus students smirk at the sight of their professor with his friend, whom they have seen before.
· Deven tells Murad he can spend time with him after class.
· Murad suggests Deven take him to the “best restaurant in [his] great city” (10) since he has come all the way from Delhi just to see Deven.
· Deven offers Murad one of the two cigarettes he had just purchased.
· Murad jokes that even...
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