Deepak Sharma Tr.: Madhu B. Joshi with the author Who was it that told me that jackals, foxes and wolves belong to the same species but the jackal is distinguished by its habit of wandering in dilapidated, abandoned ruins of old habitations? Am I, too, a jackal who of late finds my mind wandering back to the old, abandoned Kasbapur I left forty years ago to settle permanently here in Vancouver? Why does the air of that town still ring in my ears Kunti's voice, 'Where am I required to make my signature?' Why does it bring Kunti here in