September Meeting

We will meet at Three Quarters Chinese for Lunch on 30th September.

Book for September

In An Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh

Synopsis

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had travelled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medievel customs coexist with twentieth century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbours.

August Meeting

We'll be meeting for lunch on 27th of August at Roomali with a View, 100 feet Road, Indira Nagar.

Book for August

Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry

Synopsis
Set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family.