SOLILOQUY OF A SMALL – TOWN UNCIVIL SERVANT (PB)

Soliloquy of a Small-town
Uncivil Servant is an attempt at a memoir that begins with the realization
that the narrator has forgotten much of his past. Hence, the acute need to
retrieve it. What comes to light is an arduous journey into his past—the
circumstances of his birth, his growing up in a small city like Gorakhpur and
his rendezvous with life outside of that inhibited milieu as he joins the
civil services and moves to other places. Fact and fantasy meld as he
recreates his experiences with bureaucracy and bureaucrats—his perception of
them and theirs of him as an ‘outsider’—and recounts his many associations
with men, women, his teachers and even strangers.