The Immortals
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The Immortals

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eBook - ePub

The Immortals

About this book

**Includes a new foreword by Pankaj Mishra**

Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained in the classical idiom but happily teaching more popular songs to well-to-do women, whose modern way of life he covets. Sixteen-year-old Nirmalya Sengupta is the rebellious scion of an affluent family who wants only to study Indian classical music. With a little push from her mother, Shyam agrees to accept Nirmalya as his student, entering into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences.

With quiet humor and unsentimental poignancy, The Immortals is a luminous portrait of the spiritual and emotional force of a revered Indian tradition, of two fundamentally different but intricately intertwined families, and of a society choosing between the old and the new.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9780571361601
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Introduction
  6. Contents
  7. The notes of Bhimpalasi emerged
  8. On the way to the city
  9. The company office was on Tulsi Pipe Road
  10. When the first promotion had come
  11. That day, as Motilalji and Shyamji came out
  12. Two years after Apurva Sengupta’s company
  13. He was lordly with her
  14. The boy came out into the sitting room
  15. When Sumit Sen visited Bombay
  16. Prashanta and Nayana Neogi still lived
  17. The company Mr Sengupta worked in grew
  18. The next day, after the party
  19. Nirmalya, unobtrusively but firmly rejecting
  20. Nirmalya had a maroon kurta
  21. Apurva Sengupta decided
  22. She knew she could have been famous
  23. But the heart murmur
  24. The family planning programme
  25. ‘You’re teaching Mallika these days.’
  26. Hanuman Prasad Rao came from a landowning family
  27. It was Shyamji’s good fortune
  28. ‘What do you talk to him about, baba?’
  29. He went to the balcony
  30. Despite the urge to go to the Himalayas
  31. Two months ago, Nirmalya and Mallika
  32. Shyamji’s stock had gone up
  33. ‘Well, there was that man’
  34. Shyamji fell ill
  35. ‘Saab, we are in need of some money.’
  36. Gradually, Shyamji got better
  37. Mrs Lakhani’ s home was a two-storeyed house
  38. But Shyamji didn’t leave the country
  39. During Shyamji’s absences in England
  40. There were rumblings in the background
  41. There was no great change
  42. The Bombay Chamber of Commerce
  43. Finally they left that side of the city
  44. A few of the things that had furnished
  45. Nirmalya – though he still hadn’t completed college
  46. He went walking around Pali Hill
  47. He had to have a photograph taken
  48. The city had begun to glitter
  49. Shyamji wasn’t well
  50. Shyamji scratched his cheek
  51. Nevertheless, he continued teaching
  52. ‘What can you do with a man who won’t be treated?’
  53. The suitcase had been packed
  54. Two days after he’d left, Shyamji came
  55. Jumna – this woman who’d come to their house
  56. He kept going to the window
  57. Exploring the epicentre of London
  58. ‘There’s an invitation, ji’
  59. Along with an invitation to join a discussion
  60. Now, after Shyamji’s death
  61. After Shyamji’s death, Pyarelal received
  62. Pyarelal was returning to his small flat
  63. Later, at the close of the year
  64. ‘Karkhanis has failed,’
  65. Acknowledgements
  66. About the Author
  67. Further praise for The Immortals:
  68. By the Same Author
  69. Copyright