In Interpreter of Maladies (1999) Jhumpa Lahiri gives voice to Boori Ma, a durwan (doorkeeper) who chronicles about the easier times she enjoyed before deportation Kolkata (previously known as Calcutta, India) after Partition 1947. plays with word real implying that Ma’s stories could be deciphered or not. fictitious life resembles one Royal Family Oudh, which seems inspired by. Foreign corresp...