Siddharth Chowdhury’s new novel goes cheekily into the world of book publishing in India
An excerpt from the novelist’s latest work, ‘The Time of the Peacock’. Author Siddharth Chowdhury
My farmhouse in Sidhrawali was quite small, built on a half-acre plot. I had bought it off my old office peon, Ch Shyampal, six years ago. He had now retired and further down the road farmed his two lots of ten acres each and drove a red and white Mitsubishi Pajero with “CHOUDHARY” written proudly on the back windscreen, along with a graffito of a man in a resplendent pink turban twirling his moustache.