The Bengalis are the third largest ethno-linguistic group in the world, after the Han Chinese and the Arabs. A quarter of a billion strong and growing, the community has produced three Nobel laureates, world-class scientists, legendary political leaders and revolutionaries, iconic movie stars and directors, and an unending stream of writers, philosophers, painters, poets and musicians of the first rank. But, bald facts aside, just who are the Bengalis? What is ...
In an elite boarding school in Rajasthan, fifteen-year-old Barun Ray, aka Brandy, lover of canned fish and beefsteak, hater of Kipling, worshipper of Michael Caine and Mick Jagger, meets his soulmates--Fish, 'king' swimmer with a domineering. Muslim-hating father; PT Shoe, a princeling who wants to run away to America and marry a gora chick; and Porridge, a cereal-loving jester caught between warring churches at home. Together, the four boys set about ...