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The Ugliness of the Indian Male
Mukul Kesavan,
Black Kite,
Rs. 395
Interesting reading. This collection of essays on a large variety of topics, gives the reader plenty to think about. Kesavan’s writing is more serious than it appears (as those familiar with his columns and books will know) and you’ll quickly find yourself absorbed in the author’s reflections, ideas and theses on many topics from the “ugliness of the Indian male” to the “pseudo-secularism” of the Indian. To get a broad notion of what’s in the book, some lines from the author’s introduction: “Every English-speaking Indian man between twenty-five and sixty has written about the Hindi movies he has seen, the English books he has read, the foreign places he has travelled to and the curse of communalism. …Why did a bunch of grown men in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries write about the same movies, novels, journeys and riots? ….these regularities in the behaviour of Anglophone Indians are odd enough to be interesting”
KALA KRISHNAN RAMESH
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