While the colourful sweetmeats are frying in the kitchen, Jagan immerses himself in his copy of the Bhagavad Gita. A widower of firm Gandhian principles, Jagan nonetheless harbours a warm and embarrassed affection for his wastrel son Mali. Yet even Jagan's patience begins to fray when Mali descends on the sleepy city of Malgudi full of modern notions, with a new half-American wife and a grand plan for selling novel-writing machines. From different generations and different cultures, father and son are forced to confront each other, and are taken by surprise . . .
- ISBN13 9788185986098
- Publish Date 1 December 2007 (first published 26 April 1967)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint Indian Thought Publications
- Format Paperback
- Pages 185
- Language English