I picked this book because I thought it was a set of stories set in Bangalore, a city where I spent one full year of my childhood, and hence it occupies a special place in my heart. I do return to Bangalore on and off, and I love the city. On that front, I was disappointed, because the city is me...
On the balcony in the cold dawn, he watched the lightening of the sky and listened to the neighborhood muezzins. They had acquired competing loudspeakers, the mosques; one maulvi’s voice had a magical, haunting quality, the other squawked self-importantly. Behind them, like so many echoes, the so...
Officially, as per his one-page bio-data, prepared for a small sum by one of the roadside typists who serviced the lawyers outside Bangalore’s Mayo Hall, his name was T. R. Gavirangappa.Tharikere Ranganatha Gavirangappa. Anyone reading his name would instantly know that he hailed from the village...