By Suren Pillay on June 19, 2014
The other day we watched the four part mini series production of Hanif Kureishi’s novel, the Buddha of Surburbia. It is a wonderful screen adaptation of that novella about two generations of south Asians negotiating their pasts and futures, their possibilities which abound, and their limitations which are all over and around. There are familiar tropes: of fathers and sons inhabiting different cultural orbits. Of arranged marriages and corner shops. But there is more. A good writer, Milan Kundera once said, is above all, an honest writer.