Quixotic retirees in Coorg and young newly-marrieds trying to eat meat teenage boys travelling to Benares in the 19th century and a retiree with an anger-management problem in the face of an India whose right wing is rising. Fourteen well-crafted stories give us a sense of the daily Indian life of a wide cast of characters. Hasan's characters are as always living in their own heads a lot of the time often whimsical and vulnerable outliers. Where is their place in the new order where have they co