English, August
Upamanyu Chatterjee’s comic novel of a young civil servant, Agastya Sen, posted to a remote district town. Bored, stoned and alienated from an India he barely knows, he spends a year dodging his duties. It became a touchstone for a generation of urban, English-speaking Indians.
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Ahmede Hussain
This is one of the first books I read in English that was written by an Indian. What amazed me at the time was the sarcasm within it, which is very strong. The novel is about a young trainee civil servant called Agastya Sen who is posted to Madna, in India’s hinterland. Agastya had grown up in the cosmopolitan city of Delhi and he finds it very difficult to cope with his new environment.
Interview · May 2012
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