Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee is an Indian civil servant who currently serves as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Defence. He is a 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service officer from Maharashtra Cadre. He is a published author and best known for his novel English, August, also adapted into an acclaimed film of the same title. Chatterjee has written a handful of short stories of which "The Assassination of Indira Gandhi" and "Watching Them" are particularly noteworthy. His best-selling novel, English, August : An Indian story , was published in 1988 and has since been... reprinted several times. A review in Punch described the book as "Beautifully written … English, August is a marvelously intelligent and entertaining novel, and especially for anyone curious about modern India". The novel follows Agastya Sen - a young westernized Indian civil servant whose imagination is dominated by women, literature and soft drugs.
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