Boom.
"What? Then it's a village full of sinners?"
Boom, boom.
"Baapu-ré! Then, will everybody go to hell?"
Boom, boom.
"But, bhaijan. Is there any hope for them?"
Boom, boom, the bullock offered salvation. Excitedly, Osman bent down, placing his ear by the bullock's mouth. "Tell, quickly. What should they do to be saved?" At this point the bullock plucked Osman's cap off his head and carried it around the crowd, asking for money, and Osman would nod, happily: Boom, boom.
Osman the convert and his boom-boom bullock were well liked in Titlipur, but the young man only wanted the approval of one person, and she would not give it. He had admitted to her that his conversion to Islam had been largely tactical, "Just so I could get a drink, bibi, what's a man to do?" She had been outraged by his confession, informed him that he was no Muslim at all, his
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