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The Boxwallah and the Middle Man

AuthorRaj Chatterjee
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Price560

A middle writer adopts a contemplative style, looking back in time, taking a gentle jab at the future, and dwellingâ€”nearly always with humourâ€”on human frailties, particularly his own. For forty years, Raj Chatterjee has been doing just that. This â€˜undisputed monarch of the Middle Kingdomâ€™, as Jug Suraiya acknowledges him to be, began his professional life as a â€˜burra sahibâ€™ in a British firm, but retired prematurely to do what he loved most: write. The result was a libraryâ€™s worth of pieces pondering everything from the temperature in Multan in July 1938 (inside a club that did not admit Indians) to the moot question of whether Adam was really a pygmy. Khushwant Singh says of his friend, contemporary and fellow compulsive writer: â€˜Raj Chatterjee became a household name, not as a boxwallah but as a middleman who wrote the most readable â€œmiddlesâ€ for leading Indian journals.â€™ Penguin India is proud to present here some of his best.

Publisher Penguin
Publication Date 04/03/2008
Number of Pages 206
Binding Paper Back
ISBN RP9780143063162
Category Fiction

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