Fiction
by Nandini Krishnan
Mar 01, 2026
Professor Rajagopalan and Professor (Mrs.) Vaidehi Rajagopalan, it was thought, had married largely because they were the only teachers in the Department of English of the engineering college where they had first met who spoke English. They had no children—it was thought—less from an inability to conceive as an inability to copulate. They were simply too dignified, thought their students and servants and everyone else who knew them, to have something as mundane as sex. They might have