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Shillong: Town in north-eastern India, located at an elevation of 4,990 feet
Adopt: To voluntarily take a child of other parents as one’s own
IAS: Indian Administrative Service
Chick: Woman or girl
Jane Austen: Writer who gave the novel its modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life
Kwai: Paan leaf, betel nut and lime paste
Nun: A woman belonging to a religious order, under vows of poverty, chastity and obedience
Pink Floyd: British band that debuted on EMI records in 1967
Pregnant: Containing unborn young within the body
Dkhar: Khasi word for non-tribal person
The 1990s. It’s raining in Shillong. Eight-year-old Sophie Das has just realised she is adopted, but there is also the baby kicking inside her mother’s stomach whom she’s dying to meet. IAS aspirant Aman Moondy is planning a first-of-its-kind Happening and praying the lovely Concordella will come. College lecturer Firdaus Ansari is going to finish her thesis, have a hard talk with her boyfriend, and then get out.
Poetic, funny, tender and reflective, Lunatic in my Head is a moving portrait of a small town undergoing big changes; and of three people joined to each other in an intricate web, determined to break out of their small town destinies.
ISBN 9788189884055
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Pages : 344
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