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ou definitely do. Like your famous airplanes.” Ammu said
that the sad but entirely predictable fate of Chacko’s airplanes was an impartial mea-
sure of his abilities. Once a month (except during the monsoons)a parcel would ar-
rive for Chacko by VPP. It always contained a balsa aeromodeling kit. It usually took
Chacko between eight and ten days to assemble the aircraftwith its tiny fuel tank and
motorized propeller. When it was readyhe would rake Estha and Rahel to the rice
fields in Nattakom to help him fly it. It never flew for more than a minute. Month af-
ter monthChacko’s carefully constructed planes crashed in the slushgreen paddy
fields into which Estha and Rahel would spurtlike trained retrieversto salvage the
remains. A taila tanka wing. A wounded machine. Chacko’s room was cluttered
with broken wooden planes. And every monthanother kit would arrive. Chacko nev-
er blamed the crashes on the kit. It was only after Pappachi died that Chacko resigned
his job as lecturer at the
Madras Christian Collegeand came to Ayemenem with his Balliol Oar and his
Pickle Baron dreams. He commuted his pension and provident fund to buy a Bharat
bottle-sealing machine. His oar (with his team-mates’ names inscribed in gold) yilai：
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