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The Lovers is about a man in search of a love story. This man, our narrator, is Kailash—a new immigrant, eager to shine. His friends teasingly call him Kalashnikov, and sometimes AK-47, even AK. In his account of his years at a university in New York, AK takes us through the bittersweet arc of youth and love. There is discovery and disappointment. There are the brilliant women, Jennifer and Nina and Cai Yan. There is the political texture of campus life and ...
Section 1. Lakhani .Section 2. Siraj.
Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate brings together the writings of thirty-three distinguished figures of Indian origin—writers as well as nationalist icons—whose writings portray vividly, and with utmost honesty, a struggle to define the relationship between the homeland they have seemingly left behind the new world they have come to be a part of. Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s and Amitav Ghosh’s imaginary landscapes of England are juxtaposed with first-hand ...
A film director asks Binod, who is a journalist in Bombay, to produce a portrait of a murdered girl, a poet killed by a politician by whom she is pregnant. The director wants a script about small towns desire, compromise and intrigue. Probably he wants masala. Subtle and articulate, his sensibility shaped by the classic films of a high-minded and austere boyhood, Binod undertakes to draught a Bollywood story. Unlike Binod is his cousin Rabinder, in Hajipur jail ...