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Meet Chris Stark—six-feet-four, weighing a healthy 300 pounds—a former player of American football who, as he himself is the first to accept, ‘think pretty good but don’t talk that great on account of playing too much football’. Following the opportunities created by liberalisation, his family’s corporation has entered into a business collaboration with an Indian company, and this has brought the sportive young man to Delhi. While in India he becomes ...
The best-selling author of the inscrutable Americans and making the Minister Smile returns with another entertaining story in the Department of Denials. In this latest venture, Babar Thakur--Babas to his friends--a youth fresh out of college in search of an identity and direction in life, sets off on a trip to fulfill his dream of becoming the Prime Minister of India one day. In the best traditions of all heroic Odysseys, he starts out on his quest alone. Soon, ...
In A Life Lived Later: Poems, his first collection of verse, Anurag Mathur, best-selling author of The Inscrutable Americans and Making the Minister Smile, looks back on varied life experiences. From a loving portrait of a grandfather and fleeting childhood reminiscences of ‘cricket on a turning track’, to youthful passions and sad farewells, he weaves his words around themes that are intensely personal, yet universal. Even as he writes of belonging and ...