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The Fine Print
Other Yarns
Buddha Deb, for whom Impressionist painting has a strange fascination, who gets a rare opportunity, for just two days, to experience the bohemian life of artists in Paris. Amitabh, known for his generosity and hospitality, gets so transformed within a few days of his arrival in Paris that he would put to shame a confirmed miser. Dr Chopra, a widely traveled doctor who considers himself to be the last word on foreign travel, on his first visit to the city of fashion and romance. Pieter Van Der Polder, Dutch student and amateur cook who gets into an amusing row with a Belgian girl. These stories provide a keen insight into the mind of an average Indian abroad — his resilience and adaptability.
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THE
fine print and other yarns, a collection of nine stories of which
seven are set in Paris of 1980s and 1990s and two in contemporary
India, is like a kaleidoscope, each turn of which presents an
eminently interesting and unforgettable character. Among them are: