English, August: An Indian Story (New York Review Books Classics)

by UpamanyuChatterjee (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

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  1989

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  Agastya Sen, a young civil servant is posted to Madna where he experiences kitsch in all its forms - relics of the British Empire, temples, monsoons, Gandhi, savants. In his confusion he lurches towards the Hindu belief in the virtues of renunciation and an uncertain, traumatic, self-knowledge. The author has also written The Assassination of Indira Gandhi which was chosen for Best Short Stories of 1986 .