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Serious Men

Serious Men

Author(s): Manu Jospeh

Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)

Genre(s): Fiction, Humour

Era(s): Modern

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Ayyan Mani is a man born to greater things, which wouldn’t surprise his neighbours in the vast tenement building in which he lives, where to be sober and employed practically makes a man a legend.

He works as an assistant at the Institute of Theory and Research, where he studies with amusement and envy the public battles and private love affairs of the squabbling scientists. But when an opportunity for betterment presents itself in the form of his ‘gifted’ ten-year-old son Adi, father and son embark on an outrageous ruse that will have far-reaching consequences . . .

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One of the strongest debuts of 2010, this bittersweet Mumbai tale of high minds and low plots never quite won the plaudits it deserves. Now it has a second chance . . . More...

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