Sunday, September 08, 2019

Book: The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee

The Mammaries of the Welfare StateThe Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I haven't read "English, August" yet but perhaps I should have.

"The Mammaries of the Welfare State" (2000) doesn't seem to have the wit and narrative flow of Upamanyu Chatterjee's most celebrated work. The sequel (parts of which I found quite tedious) continues its satirical exploration of Indian bureaucracy, partly from the point of view of Agastya Sen - the protagonist of the 1988 novel that is very much on my to-read list.

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