Madras on My Mind : A City in Stories

By Krishna Shastri| Chitra Viraraghavan

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About the book

Once upon a time by the sea, there was a story – and another and another – and some wandered into these pages to make up a city. So meet, among others, a travel guide who falls for a French tourist, a rice merchant with Kollywood dreams, a god whose editor proves elusive, a portly musical lawyer caught in a noir plot, and a man in search of family in the Great Madras Flood.Find yourself, among other places, in Town, at that gastronomic oxymoron, the Udipi cafe, in Velachery, looking for pot or maybe for love, on Kaanum Pongal day all across Madras, even in a fast car on East Coast Road, fleeing the city – till it lures you back with its lovely lies.It’s all here: the salt in the breeze, the eternal summer, the swing of the sea. It’s Madras on your mind.

Pages: 224

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Krishna Shastri

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli is a cartoonist, children’s illustrator and graphic designer. In his chequered career, he has worked in advertising, designed hundreds of greeting cards, illustrated school textbooks and written film scripts. Ice Boys in Bell-Bottoms is his first novel.

Chitra Viraraghavan

Chitra Viraraghavan was educated in Hyderabad, Kodaikanal, Madras and Boston. She has been a book editor,written school textbooks and taughtEnglish. The Americans is her first novel.