Written in English
Sahitya Akademi 2004 · Winner
The Mammaries of the Welfare State
The Mammaries of the Welfare State
Upamanyu Chatterjee · 41 when first published
Novel · 437 pages · Satire, Politics
AI-generated summary:Agastya Sen, now a jaded officer of the Indian Administrative Service, cannot even get a room in the capital before he is posted as Collector to Madna, the small town where he trained, just as plague breaks out there.