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    In literature which Indian girl is torn between a cobbler and a cricketer?

    Question #22240. Asked by Jack. (Sep 02 02 8:23 PM)


    gsyrup

    		I think it's A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, you'ld have to check the character's name though as I can't remember it.


    Sep 03 02, 11:38 AM
    Kainantu

    		Lata from 'A Suitable Boy' by Vikram Seth

    One of the principal characters is Mrs. Rupa Mehra, an irrepressible and effusive widow determined to find a good alliance from the right caste for her youngest daughter Lata. Lata has other plans that include ambitions of a teaching career and an affair with Kabir, a handsome cricketer, who is most unsuitable in Mrs. Mehra's eyes as he is Muslim.

    The plot is fairly simple -- The novel begins with Mrs. Mehra shedding tears of joy over Savita's wedding, and resolving to make Lata follow her sister's example. Lata is both amused and annoyed by her mother's plans but things take a not so strange turn when she falls in love with the unsuitable Kabir. Kabir is not the only suitor for Lata's hand. Also in the race are Amit Chatterji, a young poet related by marriage to the Mehras, and Haresh Khanna, a dynamic young man who has ambitions of making it big in the shoe business. Which of these three would be Lata's final choice forms the main thread of the novel.

    http://www.meghdutam.com/bookstemp.php?name=book45.htm and and printer=0

    Sep 03 02, 11:51 AM

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