TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sankaran,Lavanya
TI  - The red carpet: Bangalore stories 
SN  - 9780755327867 (pbk.)
U1  - 823.92 SAN 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London
PB  - Deadline Review
KW  - Conflict of generations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Bangalore (India)
N1  - Bombay this --; Closed curtains --; Two four six eight --; The red carpet --; Alphabet soup --; Mysore coffee --; Birdie num-num --; Apple pie, one by two
N2  - "Wry humor and a grasp of the friction between generations in Bangalore are the hallmarks of Lavanya Sankaran's debut collection. Bangalore, India's own Silicon Valley, is a crucible for prosperity, and at the chaotic crossroads between past and present. Here, American-trained professionals like Tara return to their old-fashioned families with heads full of Quentin Tarantino dialogue; a successful entrepreneur is shaken when his partner suddenly reneges on their plan to return to America; a traditional Indian mother slyly circumvents her Western-educated daughter's resistance to marriage; a neighborhood gossip is determined to discover what goes on behind the closed curtains of the hip young couple across the street; a chauffeur must reconcile his more orthodox credos with his employer's miniskirt lifestyle."--BOOK JACKET
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