The Strike, the

by Anand Mahadevan

Twelve-year-old Hari tries to make sense of his tumultuous and complex world in 1980s India. His experiment at eating fish leads to the accidental death of his grandmother; his preference for Hindi over his mother tongue Tamil leads to slanderous graffiti against his family in Madras; and his friendship with the family maid lands him in trouble with a militant Tamil film fan and political functionary called Vishu. Matters come to a head when MGR,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894770307
• ISBN13: 9781894770309
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Tsar Publications
• Length: 224 Pages