About the Book: A Day In The Life
Quixotic retirees in Coorg and young newly-marrieds trying to eat meat; teenage
boys travelling to Benares in the 19th century and a retiree with an
anger-management problem in the face of an India whose right wing is rising.
Fourteen well-crafted stories give us a sense of the daily Indian life of a wide
cast of characters. Hasans characters are, as always, living in their own heads
a lot of the time, often whimsical and vulnerable outliers. Where is their place
in the new order, where have they come from and where are they going?Quietly
devastating, subtly subversive, and