A Single Man is never described as a “Hindu novel” – a Google search returns zero hits – but, as Edmund White writes, Vedanta, which Isherwood discovered in the early 1940s, is the “key” to understanding the book. Caught on camera: The moment a bird hit Karnataka Congress president’s chopper, breaking windowĬhristopher Isherwood’s fiction is rarely read these days, but A Single Man (1964) is still known, thanks both to Tom Ford’s 2009 film adaptation and to its status as a pioneering gay novel.Watch: Dog ‘drives’ ride-on lawn mower in yard, stuns passerby.Readers comments: Sad to see vested interests fuelling hatred among Indians on community lines.Watch: Scores of fish leap out of the water at Kochi ferry terminal to delight of commuters.The changing map of India from 1 AD to the 20th century.The tale of ‘Daku’ Sultana and his unlikely friendship with a British police officer.
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