Ramchand, a young man living in a small, north Indian town, works each day at Sevak Sari House. Amongst the cotton and silks, he and his fellow shop assistants sit, unrolling yards of coloured fabric for the town's middle class wives and daughters and speculate on their own futures.
Tag: indian fiction
The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa
Ramchand, a young man living in a small, north Indian town, works each day at Sevak Sari House. Amongst the cotton and silks, he and his fellow shop assistants sit, unrolling yards of coloured fabric for the town's middle class wives and daughters and speculate on their own futures.
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
A darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalized world.