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Our living room smells of death, according to Maggie. It’s because Maggie associates the aroma of incense sticks with death. She has reasons for doing so. The only time Catholics in Kerala light incense sticks at home is when someone dies. Incense sticks keep burning incessantly near the corpse until it is taken away for funeral. I started burning incense sticks in my living room when Maggie and I were working in Delhi. I don’t know why I started the habit. But...
