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Anurag Mathur

    Anurag Mathur is een vooraanstaande Indiase journalist en uitgever wiens schrijven het ingewikkelde mozaïek van het Indiase leven verkent. Zijn werk wordt gekenmerkt door een scherpe observatiestijl en een diep begrip van de culturele nuances die alledaagse ervaringen vormgeven. Mathurs proza biedt lezers een boeiend venster op het hart van India, waarbij hij inzichtelijk commentaar combineert met het scherpe oog van een journalist voor details. Door zijn bijdragen aan toonaangevende Indiase publicaties nodigt hij lezers uit om zich op een betekenisvolle en tot nadenken stemmende manier bezig te houden met hedendaags India.

    Making the Minister Smile
    The Department of Denials
    • The Department of Denials

      • 177bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      The Best-Selling Author Of The Inscrutable Americans And Making The Minister Smile Returns With Another Entertaining Story In The Department Of Denials. In This Latest Venture, Babar Thakur Babs To His Friends A Youth Fresh Out Of College In Search Of An Identity And Direction In Life, Sets Off On A Trip To Fulfil His Dream Of Becoming The Prime Minister Of India One Day. In The Best Traditions Of All Heroic Odysseys, He Starts Out On His Quest Alone. Soon, He Is On A Roller-Coaster Ride Through The Corridors Of Power, Witness To The Shenanigans Of Netas And Babus. Chief Among Them Is The Minister Balak Kumar, Who, Repeatedly At The Receiving End Of Various Allegations From The Opposition, Finally Decides To Centralize All Denials Under One Authority, Namely, The Department Of Denials. And He Asks Babs'S Father, Bahadur Prasad Thakur, To Head The Newly Created Department. The Stage Is Thus Set For An Unending Run Of Situations, Alternately Bizarre And Funny.

      The Department of Denials2004
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    • Making the Minister Smile

      • 219bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      An Average American Among The Inscrutable Indians. Meet Chris Stark Six-Feet-Four, Weighing A Healthy 300 Pounds Who, As He Himself Is The First To Accept, Thinks 'Pretty Good But Don'T Talk That Great On Account Of Playing Too Much (American) Football'. His Family'S Corporation Entered Into A Business Collaboration With An Indian Company Following The Opportunities Created By Liberalization, And This Has Brought The Sportive Young Man To Delhi. While In India, He Becomes Enmeshed In Industrial Disputes, Political Machinations, Weird Intelligence Webs And An Unfortunate Love Affair, Besides Various Other Oddities. The Solution To The Entire Gordian Knot Of Problems Lies In Making The Minister Smile. Anurag Mathur Is The Best-Selling Author Of The Inscrutable Americans.

      Making the Minister Smile2002
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