What is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle referring to when he
writes, “There have been
massacres of populations like that
of the South Americans by the
Spaniards

followers to be the greatest which has ever been known in human annals

so the story tells of someone named kaushik choudhuri, but he does not narrate the story, a girl named hema does. hema tells the story in a second person point of view because you (the reader) are supposed to be the boy named kaushik.

here's an excerpt i found: "i was ushered into the fitting room, your mother watching approvingly as i took off my coat and sweater and tried on the bra."

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