FINDING COMMON GROUND Use your notes to come up with ideas for a group discussion of Santha Rama Rau's experiences. If you need more questions to stimulate discussion, you might try these:
1. Describe the breakthroughs in this selection Who do you think made them, and why are the breakthroughs important?
2. What would you have done if you had been in Premila's situation? What would you have done as her parent?
3. What does this autobiographical excerpt say about the nature of prejudice? Do you think events like the ones Rau described are hap- pening in other settings today? Explain.