He was so meek and mild that they called him Minoo Murghi (hen). Soft-spoken to the point of being inaudible, the notoriously rough students of the Tata Boys’ School gave their history teacher a lot of grief. Minoo though was a picture of equanimity in his unchanging dress of black coat, white trousers and a black cap set firmly on his head. Murghi’s wife was even more docile, seldom lifting her head from the jantar (wooden contraption for weaving kustis) while speaking to strangers. These docility chromosomes resulted in a super docile son named Rusi, who was partially deaf and......