[T]hese giants are ever heretics and blasphemers, robbers and oppressors, outragers of the female sex, and scoffers at regular authority.

Yes, I admit that it was all my past run-ins with “crazy religious people” always trying to “save” me and shove religion down my throat that closed me off to Anthony's real sentiments.

The midwife shaves the headhair of the child, takes it in a Phumk (vessel of Sal leave) and immerse in the water of Bonga-Pokhri.

The bucket catches water from the downspout.