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Having grown up in places where the school librarian wouldn’t allow ninth graders to take home anything beyond Hardy Boys, I was quite surprised to find English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee sitting on one of the bookshelves in college. Hailed as one of the “must-reads” in contemporary Indian English fiction, the book follows Agastya Sen, or August, a young babu on his first posting in some obscure place in Central India, and his thoughts, or lack thereof. To try and explain English, August would be a bad idea – it’s a book you must read to get a gist of what it’s about. The existential dilemma that August is attempting to tackle, the inconsistency about his choice of career are the sort of things one associates with the present generation, but English, August was published in ’88. Anyone seeking a good English book, by which I mean a well-written one, by an Indian author, should definitely read Upamanyu Chatterjee.
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