The kite flyers / Sharad P. Paul

By:

Paul, Sharad P, 1966- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi : Fourth Estate, 2013Description: xiii, 184 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789350296172 (hardback)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

015135 23 823.92 PAU

Summary: Kumar and Raman are champion kite flyers. Lakshmi makes delicious burfis. Their friendship develops on the banks of the Kaveri in a tiny village named 'crow shit'. They are inseparable till tragedy strikes, shattering their idyllic childhood and altering the course of their lives. The story then moves to Madras, into a house of eunuchs and the barber salon, Cool Cut. These are searing times in Tamil Nadu, and MGR is the revolutionary leader - God to his followers, who surge forward, their voices linked, their tongues loyal only to their mother tongue and to their deity. As the story follows the three friends coming to terms with their new lives, the author vividly brings to life 1970s Madras, with its politics of caste, geography, gender and language.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	823.92 PAU 015135 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015135

"First published as Cool cut in 2007 by Picador"--Title page verso

Kumar and Raman are champion kite flyers. Lakshmi makes delicious burfis. Their friendship develops on the banks of the Kaveri in a tiny village named 'crow shit'. They are inseparable till tragedy strikes, shattering their idyllic childhood and altering the course of their lives. The story then moves to Madras, into a house of eunuchs and the barber salon, Cool Cut. These are searing times in Tamil Nadu, and MGR is the revolutionary leader - God to his followers, who surge forward, their voices linked, their tongues loyal only to their mother tongue and to their deity. As the story follows the three friends coming to terms with their new lives, the author vividly brings to life 1970s Madras, with its politics of caste, geography, gender and language.

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