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Three stinging darkly comic tales capture in telling detail life and survival in today's India. In the title story a sweeper discovers a cache of black money and escapes to see the Taj Mahal with his underage mistress; in 'Mohandas' a Dalit races to reclaim his life stolen by an upper-caste identity thief; and in 'Mangosil' a baby's head gets bigger and bigger as he gets smarter and smarter while his family tries to find a cure. The stories in this collection are a testament to Uday Prakash's extraordinary gift as a storyteller and his original bold voice.