· By Lavanya Sankaran. prepared for a small sum by one of the roadside typists who served the lawyers outside Bangalore's Mayo Hall, his name was T. . Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories by Lavanya Sankaran (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at . The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories by Lavanya Sankaran [in AsianWeek] Here the connecting thread is that of place: a changing, bustling Bangalore at the core of fabulous stories about a man who falls in love too late with the wrong woman, an old man who looks on helplessly as a young neighbor woman’s life falls apart before his eyes, a young.
Red Carpet Bangalore Stories by Lavanya Sankaran available in Hardcover on www.doorway.ru, also read synopsis and reviews. Ageless traditions and modern-day mores collide in this witty yet deeply compassionate debut story. Traditional southern Indian society clashes with fast-changing Western ways, in a debut collection of eight elegant, nicely developed stories. Reading Group Guide. A collection of fiction marked by wisdom and wit, The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories showcases the talent of one of the literary world's most luminous rising stars. Linked by the city of Bangalore, India's own Silicon Valley, the characters deftly evoke the global community we inhabit today, where identity and cultural tradition are often at odds with each other.
The Red Carpet is a collection of short stories – eight of them, a slice of life of a generation in transit, with its amazing contradictions, all set in Bangalore. Though the different stories are not connected with each other, the characters in most of them (if not all) are recurrent, though not in an obvious way, and usually remain inconspicuous in the stories where they are not the lead characters. BANGALORE STORIES. by Lavanya Sankaran ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 6, Traditional southern Indian society clashes with fast-changing Western ways, in a debut collection of eight elegant, nicely developed stories. Sankaran has her finger on the economic pulse that motivates many of these striving young characters, all from the provincial city of Bangalore, to embrace modern technological changes at the peril of rupturing family and culture. Wry humor and a delicious grasp of the friction between generations in Bangalore are the hallmarks of Lavanya Sankaran's fresh, deeply nuanced debut collection. "A potpourri of beggars and billionaires and determinedly laid-back ways," Bangalore, India's own Silicon Valley, is a crucible for prosperity, and at the chaotic crossroads between past and present.
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