The Other Woman

THE best Himani Shah can do is worry. And ask questions. Every day the US-based career woman calls a little university town in the Gujarati heartland to make random enquires about a woman she hardly knows. The focus of her long-distance anxiety? Seema Patel, the soon-to-be mother of Shah’s twins.In Anand, the motherland of Amul’s White Revolution, Shah’s involved in a co-operative effort of her own. By contract, 26-year-old surrogate Patel will carry Shah’s babies to term and deliver them in mid-November. Shah’s already booked her tickets according to the current AD. ‘‘Who will keep the baby if Seema has...