The short story Namaste Trump starts in a deceptive domestic setting, where a servant from the hinterlands is patronized and exploited by an upwardly mobile urban family. But as the nation celebrates Trumps visit and copes with the pandemic, it ends up becoming a prophecy of endless haunting. This sets the agenda for a series of stories that delve into fracturing or broken lives in smalltown India over the past fifty years. In the novellalength Night of Happiness, pragmatic entrepreneur Anil Mehrotra has set up his thriving business empire with the help of his lieutenant, Ahmed, an older man who is different in more ways than one. Quiet and undemanding, Ahmed talks in aphorisms bothers no one and always gets the job done. But when one stormy night, Mehrotra discovers an aspect to Ahmed that defies all reason, he is forced to find out more about his trusted aide. What will he discover madness or something worse? In a series of three linked stories, The Corridor, The Ubiquity of Riots and Elopement, Khair traces, through the eyes of an adolescent, the tensions of living as a liberal Muslim in India in the 1970s and 1980s, tensions that isolate families, break friendships, and point to the violence to come. The narrator of these stories, now a busy professional, returns in the third person in another story, Olden Friends are Golden, about belonging and exclusion on WhatsApp. Then there is Scam, a flippantly narrated story about a crime that can only be comprehended as a scam...

Binding: Paperback;256 pages; Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, Inc; Classification: FYB; Weight: 442 g; Dimensions: 133 x 207 x 22

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