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A brave and hilarious debut set in colonial India, Cow and Company begins with the British Chewing Gum Company setting up shop in Bombay with the mission of introducing chewing gum in the colonies. They declare paan, which is in all mouths at all times, as their enemy. A cow is chosen as the mascot. It is up on all the posters.
Religious sentiments are hurt. What begins as a search for a cow ends up in a catastrophe. With laugh-out-loud moments, ingenious use of language, and a spellbinding interplay of fantasy and myth, Cow and Company uses satire to take stock of the state of the nation, religion and capital, then and now.
Imprint: India Viking
Published: Aug/2019
ISBN: 9780670092833
Length : 204 Pages
MRP : ₹399.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Published:
ISBN:
Imprint: India Viking
Published: Aug/2019
ISBN: 9789353056179
Length : 204 Pages
MRP : ₹399.00
A brave and hilarious debut set in colonial India, Cow and Company begins with the British Chewing Gum Company setting up shop in Bombay with the mission of introducing chewing gum in the colonies. They declare paan, which is in all mouths at all times, as their enemy. A cow is chosen as the mascot. It is up on all the posters.
Religious sentiments are hurt. What begins as a search for a cow ends up in a catastrophe. With laugh-out-loud moments, ingenious use of language, and a spellbinding interplay of fantasy and myth, Cow and Company uses satire to take stock of the state of the nation, religion and capital, then and now.
Parashar Kulkarni was raised in Mumbai. He teaches at the intersections of religion, politics and utopias and experiments with fiction, film and performance. His work appears in journals such as Granta, Boston Review and Sociological Review, and has received several awards, including the British Academy Brian Barry Prize, Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and the Boston Review Aura Estrada Prize. Cow and Company was his first novel. He has a PhD from New York University and teaches at Yale-NUS College.
Cow and Company begins with the British Chewing Gum Company setting up shop in Bombay with the mission of introducing chewing gum in the colonies. They declare paan, which is in all mouths at all times, as their enemy. A cow is chosen as the mascot. It is up on all the posters. What begins as […]