If you somehow happened to spend such a great deal of your life doing one thing in one place, to move to a better place to do exactly the same thing, could that be viewed as a ‘new beginning’? In Master, For the time being, Janu (or anything that you change his name to) gets this question responded to for him, as he goes from a casual janitor to a teacher in, indeed, short-term. He has questions, and no one is offering him clear responses, so what else might there be to do than investigate this new way of life he’s been gifted, alongside his new understudies?
