The End

GBSNP Varma at a hospice in India:

Rajamma weathers these episodes one dreaded night after another. Time, for him, is measured in breaths.

What does he like about his wife?

"Goodness," he says, after a gasp and sigh, looking toward the ceiling.

"Patience," he says after a gasp again. They have not travelled much together. It was always work and home. "Lot of work," he says.