THE THIRD AND FINAL CONTINENT

This story is about emigrant, who  leaving India in 1964 to move to England, and then on to the U.S. and it was his third and final continent. The narrator leaves India with just a few dollars in his pocket and moves to London where he studies at the London School of Economics. He was 36 years old. His wife chosen for him by his family. Then he moved to the Cambridge, working in the MIT library and waiting his wife getting her documents and visa. He takes a small room in a home of a 103 year old woman and strikes up an unusual relationship with this woman. Her name was Mrs. Croft and when his wife arrives, he takes her to meet the old lady, but she was ill. Mrs. Croft said that she wanted to teach her how to play piano. The narrator was very upset  when he learned that she died. After some time, he told that story to his son, he was amazed.

THE TREATMENT OF BIBI HALDAR

This is the story I liked the least. But some of the details surprised me and gave the strength to read to the end. In General, this is a story about a woman with a heavy destiny life plagued with unknown and unexplored disease. She was 29 years old and her name was Bibi Haldar, she went through a lot of research and analysis that would cure her illness, but to no avail. One day they came to the result that she needs a man. But she didn't know what it is to be truly loving woman. She had a cousin Haldar, and after some time his wife became pregnant and gave birth to a girl. After that they asked Bibi to stay away so as not to infect the child. But one day she got sick and all the blame on Bibi.... Later in the spring she was found pregnant and other women from the village helped to raise her boy.