Elvis Presley

who has come back home after being exiled for two and a half decades following the tragic events of their ninth year. The outside world is rarely glimpsed in the novel except for the references to popular culture, which had penetrated India like Elvis Presley and The Sound of Music. Otherwise the West is featured as the source of harmful farming practices and idiotic television shows. The passage about Keralese history at the end of the first chapter stresses events that resulted in discrimination and