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08: The Blue Bead by Norah Burke
- #5What was Sibia's economic background?Ans : Sibia belonged to a poor family. She lived in a mud house. She did not possess even one anna, a pice or a pi even to buy a handful of blown glass beads or one of the thin glass bangles from the stall in the bazaar where they were piled like stars or one of the thin glass bangles that the man kept on a stick from where one could choose the colour of his choice. She had been living with her parents and brothers all through the jungle to the little town at the railhead.