When Rukmani and Nathan approach the doctor who once employed their son, Murugan, they are most surprised that the doctor is a female who wears trousers. Option A,
When Nathan insists he’ll speak to the doctor, he and Rukmani really surprises that the doctor is a woman,
Nectar in a Sieve is a novel written in 1954 by Kamala Markandaya. The setting of the stoy is in India during a period of intense urban development and is the chronicle of the marriage between Rukmani, youngest daughter of a village headman, and Nathan, a tenant farmer. The story is narrated in the first person by Rukmani, beginning from her arranged marriage to Nathan at the age of 12 to his death many years later.
