Often from the lower classes but not exclusively, the visiting player in particular crosses a director of a clothing workshop to moral tormented, the granddaughter of a drug addict in search of affection, a man torn between Maoist Communist ideal , writing amorous inclinations and aspirations, a gardener who believes in "Lady Chatterley," a mongrel hoyka Brahmin child-quartered in fact by the caste system, a small Muslim who struggles along in the train station or a couple of intellectuals evil child. The reader is privileged puisqu'eux themselves do not intersect, perhaps because they are part of a world too compartmentalised.
The injustice of caste, poverty, drugs and corruption draw a far from Bollywood India. Yet the loss of illusions do not rush us into the sordid either. In a news, an aspiring writer who sent her texts to an editor sees praised for its style but the manuscript will be rejected because its characters are devoid of desires. Despite a certain inevitability, the characters of "Shadows Kittur" are animated by desires - money, love, tenderness, ...- social status and this is certainly what, combined with the strength and poetry writing, alive and makes them so endearing. I loved them and was really seduced by the style. This collection really gave me enough desire to continue with "The White Tiger" by the same author.
