Patna blues, the novel, evolves and ride along with Arif Khan, member of a lower middle-class Muslim family from Patna. A 90’s story, elaborating on political and social stigma at that time.
Arif wishes to become an IAS officer, for which he tries hard. He fails after several attempts and surpasses the age too. He is a symbol of middle-class youth who wishes to reach high and fails and blames his destiny. He falls in love with a Hindu woman, several years older than him. Arif’s infatuation to her annihilate his dream and future. Later he tries to settle with a translators job. Inbetween these incidents he loses his brother, an aspiring actor, who works his luck in Bollywood and ends up as a junior actor, which he discards and go to Delhi to find a decent job to take care of his family of retired father, mother, grandmother, brother and three sisters. But, life had another plan.
Patna Blues also depicts the caste and religious indifference and striving families trying to cope with that framework. However, in the end, the author attempts to console the failed protagonist unconvincingly.
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Patna Blues also depicts the caste and religious
indifference and striving families trying to cope with
that framework.
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