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  Serious Men

  by Manu Joseph

  A poignant, bitingly funny Indian satire and love story set in a scientific institute and in Mumbai’s humid tenements.Ayyan Mani, one of the thousands of dalit (untouchable caste) men trapped in Mumbai’s slums, works in the Institute of Theory and Research as the lowly assistant to the director, a brilliant self-assured astronomer. Ever wily and ambitious, Ayyan weaves two plots, one involving his knowledge of... (more)