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In this collection of linked stories, young Farrukh recounts his yearsgrowing up in a Parsi neighbourhood in Poona during the nineteen fi fties.Sarbatwalla Chowk is the centre of the world of those he remembers:Eddie the Inventor and his Big Boy ; the massive Samson, who lives on the street and refuses to get a job; the blind man and his guide, Black Dog, which is supposed In this collection of linked stories, young Farrukh recounts his yearsgrowing up in a Parsi neighbourhood in Poona during the nineteen fi fties.Sarbatwalla Chowk is the centre of the world of those he remembers:Eddie the Inventor and his Big Boy ; the massive Samson, who lives on the street and refuses to get a job; the blind man and his guide, Black Dog, which is supposed to have special powers; Terry Soakum, the Australian crybaby who has his eye on Farrukh’s swimming trunks; Confession D’Souza, the scholarship boy who loses favour with the Jesuits over a ‘dirty book’ and grows up to become the courageous journalist Prabhat D’Souza; Chamak, with his big nose and permanent pimple, who wants to win the college elections and the heart of ‘Jhansi-ki-Rani’. And there’s Farrukh himself, distressed over a pair of broken spectacles, or a knife-fi ght at school. Warm, funny, sometimes sad but always delightful, the nine stories in Poona Company seem as fresh now as when they were fi rst published in 1980. They present a picture of smalltown India observed with a sharp eyeand a fond heart – a combination still rare in Indian fiction.

In this collection of linked stories, young Farrukh recounts his yearsgrowing up in a Parsi neighbourhood in Poona during the nineteen fi fties.Sarbatwalla Chowk is the centre of the world of those he remembers:Eddie the Inventor and his Big Boy ; the massive Samson, who lives on the street and refuses to get a job; the blind man and his guide, Black Dog, which is supposed In this collection of linked stories, young Farrukh recounts his yearsgrowing up in a Parsi neighbourhood in Poona during the nineteen fi fties.Sarbatwalla Chowk is the centre of the world of those he remembers:Eddie...  Read More