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“It’s Bene Israel, not Bene Israel,” says the narrator. As she plucks tender branches from a curry leaf plant flying happily in her balcony, Zimra whispers to me, “That’s the first thing I say to you.” Raymond Israel’s ancestral home from the 1930s, which was previously an art deco bungalow like many others in Pune, has been turned into apartments. She grew up in a strict Jewish-Indian mixed family in Mumbai, where she was born Zimra David Samuel. She is a medical practitioner who moved back to India with her husband, who is also of Bene Israel descent, after 23 years in New York. Raymond is a huge fan of vintage Bollywood posters.
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