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Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, “the hottest town in India,” deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Agastya Sen: The narrator of the story. The book is about his struggle through the midlife crisis.
- Mrs. Srivastav: Wife of the collector, Mr.Srivastav who is Agastya's superior.
- Bhatia: A friend from college who is stationed with the IFS at Madna
- Kumar: Typical police officer. In a slang a government employee type. He likes ogu and even invites him to watch a blue film with him.
- Mohan: Bhatia's friend who is originally stationed at Madna and then transferred
- Shankar: An engineer living next to Agastya who wants to get a transfer back to his old district of Koltanga
- Dhrubo: Agastya's old friend from college who is currently working at Citibank
- Dr. Multani: Ogu's personal doctor. Whenever August bunks his job, he cites illness and visit doctor Multani and pretends to be ill. As every friend does Multani also invited him to have dinner at his home
- Vasant: Agstya's cook at the guest house
- John Avery: A small character, a foreigner, who comes to Madna in search of his grandfather's memorial, who was killed by a tiger somewhere in a forest in Jompanna. His wife Seeta is an Indian.
- Madan: Common friend of August and Dhrubo. The trio used to smoke grass and get stoned.
- Dainik: A newspaper in Madna. According to district collector, Srivastav it is full of crap and it has also published a story citing some love affair between srivastav and a female BDO- Block Development Officer
- Gandhi: Add a description of this character.
- Joshi: Asst. Collector who retires from his duty at the end of this novel. August skips his retirement function and goes out with Sathe.
- Rohini: Wife of Mohan Gandhi. Augusts friend Bhatia finds her sexy. <August too>
- Baba Ramanna: He runs an ashram for lepers
- Tamse: Engineer who lived in Sen's quarters before he arrived. He had n number of plans n beautification of Madna. Some of them are, putting a Gandhi statue in front of community hall, Trying to include all Indian state's inside a rest house and so on. He did a painting and framed it on the wall of the guest house room. Everybody finds him as a man of wild ideas.
- Madna: Its the place where the full novel is centralized.
- Chidambaram: Personal Assistant to District Collector
- Marcus Aurelius: A book read by August
- Gorapak: Place where all the government officials went on a picnic. Has a temple where walls has been carved with some shapes similar to that in Khajuraho. Sen had a good party with Sathe here at the end of the novel
- Dubey: Bhatias boss
- Mrs. Rajan: NA
- Mandy: Its the great Bhatia. Sen's friend who used to a pseudo American in college days. Wears funky T shirts and jeans. Comes every time with a half bottle of whiskey when August invites him to drink.
- Prashant: N
- Pultukaku: Sen's uncle
- Chaudhri: Z
- Malik
- Antony
- Tagore
- Karanth
- Ahmed
- Renu
- Hahn
- Bdo
- Digambar
- Neera
- Chipanthi
- Gopalan
- Richard Avery
- Krishna
- Keith Jarrett
- Dr. Ghoshal
Authors & Contributors edit
- Upamanyu Chatterjee (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Faber And Faber (penguin India)
Country: India
Publication Date: 2003-02-03
ISBN: 1590171799
Page Count: 291
Publisher: Faber And Faber (penguin India)
Country: India
Publication Date: 2003-02-03
ISBN: 1590171799
Page Count: 291
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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- English, August (IMDb): English, August, made in 1994, is Indian film director Dev Benegal's first feature film. This film ignited the next generation of Indian cinema and is acknowledged as a landmark in contemporary Indian cinema. A humorous and irreverent study of bureaucracy and the Indian Generation X, English, August won several awards at international film festivals.
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