Compare and contrast the outside of Mr. Maurya's home with its interior in the novel, An Obedient Father?

Mr. Maurya's home is located in an alley and, from the outside, resembles an ordinary home. This appearance, however, is a literal facade; Ram steps through the door and finds “a wide courtyard that was open to the sun. The house itself was two stories and a pale yellow. It had a broad veranda with large potted plants” (145). The aesthetic duplicity of Mr. Maurya’s home gestures towards his illicit activities as a prominent gangster.