IN a hospital ward, Tantri makes a sudden appearance, decked in a rooster costume. The young girl has painted her entire face red, white and yellow. A rooster comb is perched on her head and around her waist are mock tail feathers made of coconut palm fronds. Then she dances. Her movements are firm and controlled, like those of a rooster fightingone of the handful of things she can still do to entertain her brother, Tantra, lying immobile in his