No Onions Nor Garlic

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Penguin Books India, 2006 - Fiction - 326 pages
Amandeep, Murugesh, Rufus And Sundar Are Bucks Who Talk Dirty For The Same Reason That They Remove The Mufflers From Their Motorcycle Exhausts It Makes Them Feel Like Men. Like Libertines.

To Their Hormonal Despair, When Professor Ram Stages His Remake Of A Midsummer Night'S Dream At Their College Fest, He Casts These Four As Fairies. The Farce That Follows Gradually Takes Over The Lives Of The Rest Of The Characters In This Achingly Funny Novel About The Pratfalls That Accompany Caste Pride.

On And Off The Campus Of Chennai University, You Will Encounter Onion-And-Garlic-Free Tambrahms Who Rewrite Shakespeare To Uphold The Hindu Order, Smug Nris Who Call The Shots In Matrimonials, Visiting Canadians Who Are Aghast At The Plight Of Dalits (Pronounced Daylights') And, At The Apex Of The Whole Tumbling Structure, A Bibulous Builder Who Invokes The Gods Even As He Defrauds His Clients.

Tailing The Characters Around This Plot Is An Unseen But All-Seeing Spectator. You May Never Guess Who That Is, But Will Laugh All The Way To The Answer.
 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
13
Section 3
16
Section 4
36
Section 5
44
Section 6
52
Section 7
65
Section 8
75
Section 15
187
Section 16
204
Section 17
211
Section 18
215
Section 19
233
Section 20
265
Section 21
268
Section 22
283

Section 9
82
Section 10
89
Section 11
107
Section 12
139
Section 13
147
Section 14
174
Section 23
294
Section 24
301
Section 25
318
Section 26
324
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