There he is introduced to life as it is lived in India’s interiors, full of corruption, infighting, factionalism, petty rivalries and a mixture of defeatism and jugaad. It tells the story of Rangnath, a young MA student who goes to Shivpalganj, his uncle’s village, to recover from an illness. In 1993, it was translated by Gillian Wright into English, thus allowing a broader audience to read the book.įunny, nihilistic, and brutally satirical, Raag Darbari is a novel that continues to resonate in the Indian imagination today. The book went on to capture the imagination of Hindi readers.

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