Scent of the Nameless

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Geet Chaturvedi’s book Pink Slip Daddy that won Hindi literature’s prestigious ‘Krishna Pratap Katha Samman’ award for fiction. In this translation of his well-known story from Pink Slip Daddy, the oft-repeated banal existence of the ‘common man in India’ takes a leap.
An unnamed lower middle-class protagonist resides in a small flat in Mumbai with his wife and young daughter living the rather un-ambitious life of an office clerk. Until one day, he discovers the magical world of a credit card. As his life slowly spirals out of control due to this new acquisition, the common man grabs for air—he asks questions on spirituality, the free market, and even politics to make sense of his financial disarray.
A scathing, psychoanalytical commentary on urban economic life, this short and pithy novel is both satire and critique.