1970: The Narrator’s Story

• Describe the various facets of Maji’s character thar are revealed in this section.

First of all, there is the “normal” Maji:
A wife who has many children who life in different places, coming to visit her every now and then. Her husband, regrettably, has died. Earlier she has been a midwife but now left her job because of her age.

Then there is the part of Maji which has something like a sixth sense.

She knows about the narrator being pregnant just by looking at her. Often she is in the state of samadhi, what means that she’s reached a higher level of consciousness and doesn’t realize what’s going on around her. She’s able to abort a child only by touching a woman’s waist, so she has to have a sort of supernatural power.