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    The Fine Print and Other Yarns (Stories of Indian Expatriates in Paris)

    By Dinesh Verma

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    The Fine Print and other Yarns is a collection of nine stories some of which may well be classified as novella as they run into thirty to fifty pages. The first four stories are set in Paris of 1980s and the next three in Paris of 1990s. The last two are set in India around the turn of the last century. Each of the stories portrays a memorable character:

    Buddy, who has a strange fascination for Impressionist painters, gets a rare opportunity to visit Paris, though only for two days. What he thinks would be a rare opportunity to experience firsthand the life of painters and artists in Paris does not quite correspond to the image of Impressionist painters that he has been carrying in his mind. What follows is like an exorcism that rid him of his quaint notions.

    Krish, studying at a reputed Business School in Paris has an ambition to become a marketing guru. He is invited for dinner to an elegant, high-end restaurant in a chic quartier of Paris by a colleague on her birthday. The dinner in that posh restaurant proves to be a lesson in marketing skills for Krishnan, though one that he has to learn the hard way.

    Dr Chopra, who considers himself to be the last word on foreign travel, is on his first visit to Paris. Not knowing a word of French, the jet setting doctor finds himself driven to the point of utter hopelessness and despair merely finding his way to his hotel from the airport. Feeling like a child who has been separated from parents in a big fair, he thinks of taking a flight back to Delhi the same day. Yet in two days he gets so fascinated with the city of fashion and romance that he is already planning his next trip there.

    Pieter Van Der Polder, a Dutch young man who cooks his dinner with a finesse and attention to details that would remind one of a classical music performer, gets into a really interesting battle of wits with a Belgian girl on his floor.

    Amitabh, a young man who is in Paris for a year with merely five hundred dollars that the foreign exchange rules allow him to carry out of India and a meager living allowance, finds his long standing reputation of being a generous and hospitable person getting evaporated into thin air. He undergoes such a transformation within a few days of his arrival in Paris that he would put to shame a confirmed miser.

    A young mobile phone dealer in Delhi, who became multimillionaire almost overnight selling mobile phones, soon after the introduction of mobile telephony in Indian markets and then reduced to penury due to a sudden reversal of his fortunes, is once again on an upward trajectory in his business. Travelling from New Delhi to Chennai by train, he relates in a very brash and candid manner the tale of his shady business deals to his fellow passengers, not knowing that there is a dangerous person amongst his audience.

    Bawa, a corporate executive in New Delhi buys a new Indian car in late 1980s, which is based on the technology of 1950s. Almost in love with his car he finds it getting transformed into virtually an antique after the influx of a host of new generation Japanese and German cars in the Indian market in early 1990s.

    These stories provide a rare insight into the psyche of an average Indian and his resilience and adaptability, which are the hallmark of the Indian Diaspora.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDinesh Verma
    Release dateDec 1, 2016
    ISBN9781370351206
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    Dinesh Verma

    Dr Dinesh Verma is a British Consultant Eye Surgeon, Inventor and Artist. After qualifying as a doctor in 1979, Dinesh had extensive training in Ophthalmology in India, UK & USA and was appointed in the National Health Service (NHS) as a Consultant Ophthalmologist in 1992. Dinesh has carried out cutting edge collaborative research with the Department of Computer Sciences and Department of Applied Physics at the University of Hull, England publishing papers in highly rated peer-reviewed journals. In 2001 he won the PPP Medical Foundation’s prestigious mid-career award that funded his research sabbatical at Wilmer Eye Institute Baltimore, USA. He then moved to Los Angeles with the team and was appointed to a full time clinical faculty position at Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, USA Dinesh has invented several ophthalmic devices and has published a book "Relative Happiness" on contemporary political/religious philosophy after the September 11 attacks. While working at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, he wrote most of ni4ni but completed it after moving to Rugby where he is currently Founder & CEO of a business i4vision Diagnostics (www.i4vision.co.uk) to commercialize his invention Personal Ophthalmic Diagnostic System (PODS) with innovative Tele Eye Screening Tool (iTEST) for self monitoring of visual functions.

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