sentences:  Eventually, when she discovers her own mother caused the murder of her fiancé, a disheartened Shwetambari leaves the city.17 years later, Shwetambari, now a philosopher and religious scholar, is torn between returning to her beloved city of Varanasi to see her dying father, and avoiding all the unpleasantness associated with her inter-caste liaison of the past.She returns, which creates turbulence in the mindscape of her so-called self-realized being.