In this sequel to Upamanyu Chatterjee??s debut novel, English, August, Agastya Sen??older, funnier, more beleaguered, almost endearing??and some of his friends are back. Comic and Kafkaesque, the Mammaries of the Welfare State is a masterwork of satire by a major writer at the height of his powers.
Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, ??the hottest town in India,? deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents […]