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Synopsis

INGLISTAN is a novel. Its main protagonist Rabi is an Indian lawyer, who comes to New College, Oxford to do a six-month diploma in Human Rights Law. The novel chronicles the high and low points of his half-year through his interaction with relatives long settled in England, former Indian friends now based there, and students who represent British, American, European and other nationalities. He falls in love with an English girl and for some time it appears that the story will follow on the lines of the tragic affair his great uncle had with a European woman years earlier., About The Author:- Rajesh Talwar, is a lawyer by profession, a prolific writer, and has also taught law at Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia for a period of six years. In 1996 he went to the U.K. on a British Chevening scholarship, from where he did his LL.M. in Human Rights Law from the University of of Nottingham. He has written extensively on legal and non-legal subjects for various newspapers and magazines, and has authored several books, both non-fiction as well as fiction. Making Your Own Will (Vision Books, 1992) was followed by The Judiciary on Trial (Cosmos, 1995), How to Choose Your Lawyer (Vision Books, 1998), The Divorce Handbook (Vision Books, 1999), The Third Sex and Human Rights (Gyan Publishing House, 1999), Inside Gayland (Kalpaz Publications, 2001) and The Laws of E-Business in India (Vision Books, 2001). Forthcoming books include a collection of children's stories., Contents:- Contents, Page No., 1. The Pakistani at Frankfurt 11, 2. A Gypsy at Oxford 16, 3. Identity Crisis-Problems of the, Second Generation 20, 4. Pub Rules and Mad Cows 26, 5. Trying to Make It: Madhu's Plight 34, 6. Machines 39, 7. Politeness and Culture 45, 8. Shitting and Shooting 50, 9. Eating 57, 10. Freedom and Family 62, 11. Talking 69, 12. Courtesy 74, 13. Pissing, Pornography and Wife, Swapping 81, 14. Nations, Culture and Morality 92, 15. Religion 102, 16. Sex, Newspapers and Sports 107, 17. En

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