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Reprinted with permission of the author and publisher, Red River, from Body of Evidence: In sickness & in health by Adil Jussawalla.  I have a poor sense of home. Perhaps it is because I grew up in my father’s clinic. For the first 10 years of my life, home and my father’s workplace were one. Father never had to go home from work. This didn’t prevent me from admiring other people’s homes — the Parsi Sanatorium opposite the clinic, the old mansions on Cumballa Hill Road where the clinic stood, the Mangalore-tiled St Stephen’s Church at the bottom of the hill. Once......