Mehta became determined to have his son educated. In an era when many blind Indians wound up as beggars, Dr. Had he sought treatment immediately, he came to think, Ved’s sight might have been saved. Though he had correctly identified his son’s meningitis, he let himself be persuaded of an incorrect, far less urgent, diagnosis by a ranking medical official.Īs a result, he felt he could honor an engagement to play tennis that day with a visiting British dignitary rather than take his son to the hospital. Mehta held himself responsible for Ved’s blindness, which had arisen amid circumstances that encapsulated the class-consciousness and learned subservience that India’s colonial history entailed. 'I've no comment to make': Shashi Tharoor on reports of him running for Congress president postĪmid reports of him running for the post of Congress president, Tharoor on Tuesday said he has absolutely no comments to make on the topic and he stands by his article in which he had written that election would be a good thing for the Congress.To the end of his life Dr. The abducted child was then sold to a BJP corporator from Firozabad for Rs 1.8 lakh How a child kidnapping racket works: 7-year-old ‘stolen’ from UP railway station found at BJP leader’s houseĬCTV footage from Mathura railway station showed a man stealthily picking up a boy while his family was asleep on the platform. These characters, by contrast, seem hemmed in, uptight, ambivalent about having children, uncertain about the path forward, doomed to live up to their parents’ or their own high expectations, and struggling to do the right thing and not succumb to despair. In the ’60s or ’70s, turned on and dropped out. If the younger people in these stories had been alive in the 1920s or ’30s, they might have trudged off to war. For the most part, the themes are domestic, not political-polyamory, infidelity, abandonment, isolation - though one story features an up-and-coming politician. Over the 11 stories, told in a variety of different voices, we meet a large, angsty, mostly privileged cast of characters who nonetheless seem to reflect a society that’s been knocked back on its heels. A woman is hired as a night nanny for a little girl who has three day nannies. A couple wonders if it is ethical to keep a cat in a small apartment. Parents grapple with their daughter’s anorexia. Image via an editor at The New Yorker, is an elegant writer whose stories deftly capture the foods, clothes and customs of contemporary life. Objects of Desire marks Clare Sestanovich's debut collection of short stories. Different characters - her mother, her best friend, the aunt of the former boyfriend - will express their views on sex and procreation while Iris just struggles to keep it together.
Back at college, Iris will date a boy, graduate, find out she’s pregnant, have an abortion. It’s a hilarious scene, a modern take on the Christian theme of annunciation, told in Sestanovich’s characteristic deadpan voice. Iris doesn’t recoil or say “Ewwww!” Instead, she politely congratulates them, then goes back to cutting her green beans with a plastic knife. The woman, after returning from the bathroom, reaches across Iris’s lap and waves a positive pregnancy stick in front of her husband. In the first story, Annunciation, Iris, a college student, is flying home for the holidays, seated between a married couple.
While those with jobs in marketing or tech can afford to live in glass high-rises, the aspiring artists and writers either have lots of roommates or temporarily move back home. They’re baby boomers or their 20-something kids who haven’t quite grown up. The characters in Clare Sestanovich’s debut story collection, Objects of Desire, are middle- to upper-middle-class, well-educated and tightly wrapped.
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