Corn, Green Mango, and Coconut Salad

Home from boarding school, I would go around “spending the day” with friends and relatives. Spending the day involved showing up before lunch, which one expected to be extra-good, lolling about in the afternoon in the fashion of the house, then tea, either at home or out somewhere, or a matinee, or a swim before we were returned to our parents. My mother’s older sister, Perviz, would sometimes take me to Ele-phanta Caves, where I put her on the spot by asking her to explain to an eleven-yea