Life is unpredictable enough for Gopi, with a maverick poet-grandfather and an elusive artist-father. Add to this pesky siblings, feckless film folk, eccentric friends, an incontinent dog, a neighbour who has his privates shaved in public, and all of it in a brand-new city, Madras, and you have Ice Boys in Bell-bottoms. Bent on making his mother’s dire predictions come true, Gopi becomes a Hollywood-obsessed, pulp-fiction-reading know-all, willing to twist the truth for a movie ticket, and gamble it all away for a good time. While the country experiences the Emergency, Gopi has a series of his own: first love, first hangover, and extra cloth for bell-bottoms. Everything comes to a head on the day of the big party, when his life changes forever. Gloriously funny and surprisingly poignant, this coming-of-age novel, the first of a trilogy, is India’s answer to The 400 Blows and Cinema Paradiso. A book for anyone who’s ever been a boy – or loved one.
Yaksha: What is the greatest wonder?Yudhisthir: Every man knows that death is the ultimate truth…
What is your purpose, your Dharma, your innate tendency? Your only path to freedom is…
The key to making the best vegetarian Tamil food is cooking it at home. Prema…
'This is the food my parents ate and their parents ate ... It is an…
From the internationally bestselling author of The Heartfulness Way comes a journey to the center…
From the internationally bestselling author of The Heartfulness Way comes a journey to the center…