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Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.

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12 décembre 2011

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9788184002744

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English

Average Indian Male; Latin name: manush, purush, aam aadmi, Bunty. Cyrus is back. And this time as agony aunt and master critic as he sets out to deconstruct a subject we're all familiar with-the average Indian male. The mama's boy, the groin scratcher, the man who holds hands with another man, Cyrus tackles these and many other quirks and shortcomings of Indian men in his inimitable style and unfailing logic. Join India's best known funny man as he takes you on this laugh riot like never before.

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Publié par

Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.

Date de parution

12 décembre 2011

EAN13

9788184002744

Langue

English

Humour

THEAVERAGEINDIANMALE

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

‘A laugh riot.’ –Mail Today

‘(Cyrus) at his hilarious best.’ –The Times of India

‘Laced with humour, tongue-in-cheek one liners and witty narration.’ –The Asian Age

T A I M HE VERAGE NDIAN ALE

Published by Random House India in 2011

Random House Publishers India Private Limited Windsor IT Park, 7th Floor, Tower-B, A-1, Sector-125, Noida-201301, U.P.

Random House Group Limited 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road London SW1V 2SA United Kingdom

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Foreword Introduction

Contents

Book One: Letters from the Anguished Soul and Other Narratives Apna haath jagganath Lift kara de Ungli dikhao Mere paas maa hai The long and short of Indian pants Half ticket Haath ki safai Peter paan Commode-dragon Phlegmbuoyant Pet-pooja Latitudinally challenged He knows his onions Dhoom 4 Don break my heart Blind faith Space—the final frontier Yankee-panky The North Indian male vale O lord! The landlord Needy Gonzales Aap aise queue ho? Foreign exchange The sum of all Indian marriages Jungle mein mangal Get one, get two free Sister Act Dr Bhajeewala (PhD)

Book Two: The Incoherent Thoughts of an Average Indian Male Memories (not from the musicalCats) Status (not the Udipi restaurant) Tony (not mother of Banta) Where is the grass? (not the kind on a lawn) The clap (not the kind that is sexually transmitted) Pedestrian (not to be confused with my writing style) Phamily phrend (English translation of phamily phrend)

Four-legged friend (not the same as a friend on crutches) Girls bar bar Olfactory disasters (don’t necessarily happen in all factories) Dalal (not the kind you think) Powder puff boys Drinking problem (not the inebriating kind) In Concludo! Epilogue (how writing this book has helped me) Acknowledgements

Foreword

I have not read this book. I have no intention of reading it either, and I have a very good reason for it. After having known the author from soup to nuts for over 20 years, there is nothing in this book that I have not heard straight from this horse before. The content in this collection of essays is based on the author being an astute snoop of human behaviour, an impossible critic, complainer, faultfinder, grumbler, and moaner about most things living and male. For years I have been a listener to his critique, whether in the passenger seat of a car, in a queue at an airport, in the dressing room of the Bombay Gymkhana, at the anchor desk of a news studio, or the most spastic of all places and situations including a booming voice mixed with the sound of a flush from behind the closed door of a public toilet. His observations often range from being clever, blithe, facetious to sometimes puerile, volatile, and pompous. But when he puts pen to paper and spews his venom in print, it is nothing short of pure wit and uproarious to read. This I can say without even reading the book. The book promises to take you through a minefield of traits of the average Indian male. Traits that we all may have noticed but failed to register. Be it the way we dress, the way we hold hands, scratch our groins in public, or invade personal space. Broacha watches, notes, and spins them into prose that is an entertaining almanac. His writing style is ‘him’. He writes pretty much the way he speaks, and I daresay, seemingly without much thought. But then when you have been thinking about all this all your life, do you really need to think about all this, all over again when you sit to put it down? I don’t think so. This is Cyrus Broacha’s second book. Though he continues to embrace a potent career as a stand-up comedian, television anchor, and theatre actor, Broacha’s propensity remains the written word. He has uninterruptedly for over fifteen years remained a columnist for some national publication or the other. To date he writes at least three columns a week. Self admittedly, writing gives Broacha more joy than standing in front of a camera, donning make-up, or wearing a suit to entertain a crowd. He still uses pen and paper and illegibly scribbles in a variety of notepads in a font that only his mother and aunt can decipher and that his wife gave up on long ago. This is a compilation of all that chicken scratch. I will someday get down to reading this book, but that should not discourage you from doing so. That’s because if you are an Indian male, you feature in this book. If you are an Indian female, your father, brother, husband, and all your male friends and relatives are characters here. I am sure some of you will recognise yourselves in this book as most of us would. So, if it says anywhere in the book that any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and unintentional, don’t believe it.

KUNAL VIJAYAKAR

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