{"id":7473,"date":"2007-04-09T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2019-05-15T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T04:37:49","slug":"amitava-kumar-on-above-average-by-amitabha-bagchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/amitava-kumar-on-above-average-by-amitabha-bagchi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPlease bhaisahab, adjust a little\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bookdetails\">\n<div id=\"bookimage\">\n<span class=\"wrap-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/uploads\/images\/above-average-amitabha-bagchi.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"73\" height=\"111\" \/><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bookmaininfo\">\n<p class=\"booktitle\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Above Average<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookauthor\"><strong>By:<\/strong> Amitabha Bagchi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>   <!-- bookmaininfo --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- bookdetails --><\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to review a book after having read only the first chapter?<\/p>\n<p>While waiting for your answer, a quick word about Amitabha Bagchi&#8217;s debut novel <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboveaveragebook.com\/index.php\" title=\"Above Average -- Amitabha Bagchi\">Above Average<\/a><\/i>. The voice is part-Upamanyu Chatterjee and part-Amitav Ghosh. I have just started reading it and like it because of lines like these: &#8220;When we entered the train compartment in which Agrawals Classes had booked all of us, one of the Papas decided to ensure that we all sit together. &#8216;Please bhaisahab,&#8217; he said, hectoring one passenger after another, &#8216;adjust a little, all these boys are travelling on their own for the first time.&#8217; &#8216;Let&#8217;s stay here,&#8217; said Kartik, his seat and mine having been assigned together by chance. When the proactive Papa offered us two seats he had arranged for us near the others, Kartik demurred. &#8216;Look at all these guys,&#8217; he said pointing at the other people who were part of Agrawals&#8217; group. &#8216;Such shadys.&#8217;&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, I can&#8217;t do a review on the basis of so few pages, you say? No problem. I can go back to my reading then, starting with the second chapter that begins: &#8220;My grandfather was a terrorist and a Shakespeare scholar.&#8221; (Bongs!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Above Average By: Amitabha Bagchi Is it possible to review a book after having read only the first chapter? 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