About the Book: Once it Flowers
A novel that tells the true story of modern India in a style thats inimitable
A thunderstorm blows the roof off a village school. Guruji, the schoolteacher,
who lives in the school building with his family, is forced to seek shelter in
the lock-up of an abandoned police station. The schoolhouse opens to the sky,
and this intensely poetic novel opens to the inner world of a dozen characters:
Guruji, his wife, their two children, the village watchman, the tailor, the
teashop owner at the railway station, the stationmaster. There is also the
worldly-wise grocer, Jivrakhan, and there is the