Like the static Bangla she describes in the extract above — and like the traditional mother — Mukherjee's wanderwords usually stay at home, in narrative strands set in India, their local colour harmoniously interwoven with her fiction's literary English.

As they came down the home straight, the jockey gave his horse Larry Dooley.

The ElGamal encryption system is resistant against chosen-plaintext attacks, but not against chosen-ciphertext attacks.

Coordinate term: VBAC