One And Three Quarters

About The Booka Stinging Commentary On The Moral Decrepitude That Ails Post-Independence India.Dalal (N.) A Middlemanthe Dalal Acts As A Catalyst. He Rides Pillion On The Two-Wheeler Of A Person Who Dreams Of Owning A Four-Wheeler. This Institution Of Dalals Has An Ancient History, And Langdya Is Living Proof Of Its Continuity.Young Pitambar Is Known In The Village As Langdya Because One Of His Legs Is Shorter Than The Other. Each Day, He Reluctantly Limps His Way To A Ramshackle School To Please His Unlettered Father. While His Heart Is Not In Studies, His Eyes Are On The Maths Teacher, GengageS Wife. Langdya Is Looking For A Formula To Get Rich By Climbing The Ranks In The School Oflife. Chancing Upon The Secret Affair Between The School Principal And The Music Teacher, And Using The Magic Wand Of Blackmail, He Finds His Way To The Local PoliticianS Office, Landing A HenchmanS Job. Next Step, He Is On A Fast-Track To The Mantralaya In Mumbai. He Is Egged On And Counselled By Latthya The Tomcat, Whose Language He Inexplicably Understands. Latthya, No Less A Fixer Than Langdya, Comes From A Community Of Cats That Is A Sucker For Gossip And Local Politics.Part Social Satire, Part Fable, Shrikant BojewarS One And Three Quarters Is A Stinging Commentary On The Moral Decrepitude That Ails Post-Independence India And The Curious Workings Of Its Sociopolitical Machinery.About The Authorshrikant Bojewar Has Been A Journalist For Thirty-Two Years. He Has Worked With Leading News Dailies Like Sakal And Loksatta, And Is Currently A Consulting Editor With Maharashtra Times. For The Past Twenty-Three Years, He Has Been Writing Political Satires And Caricatures. He Wrote Columns Under The Pseudonym Done Full Ek Half (Two Fulls And A Half), And More Recently As Deed Damdi (A Penny And A Half). He Has Written Ten Books, Which Include Stories For Children, Essays On The History Of Cinema And Fiction For Adults. This Novel (Pavane Don Payancha Manus) Received The Prestigious Baba Padmanji Award. Bojewar Is Also The Recipient Of The Jayvant Dalwi Award, The Dattu Bandekar Award, The Patra Lekhak Sangh Puraskar, The P.K. Atre Puraskar, The Vidyadhar Gokhale Puraskar, The Bhave (Pradnya) Puraskar, The Anant Patil Puraskar, The Ma. Sa. Pa. Puraskar, The Maharashtra State Award And The Manohar Joshi Pratishthan Puraskar, Among Others, For His Writing.About The Translatorvikrant Pande Translates Between English And Marathi. He Has Translated The Works Of Iconic Authors Like Vishwas Patil, Ranjit Desai, N.S. Inamdar, V.P. Kale, Ratnakar Matkari And Milind Bokil. His Translation Of Girish KuberS Tatayan, Published As The Tatas: The Family That Built A Business And A Nation, Won The Gaja Capital Business Book Prize In 2019. He Co-Wrote With Neelesh Kulkarni In The Footsteps Of Rama: Travels With The Ramayana, Which Is Being Made Into An Ott Series. He Has Also Written The Sbi Story: 200 Years Of Banking.