The Average Indian Male by Cyrus Broacha is a collection of hilarious essays with a perspective that only an irrepressible Cyrus can offer. As the Foreword promises: the author being an astute snoop of humans behaviour, an impossible critic, complainer, fault-finder, grumbler, and moaner about most things living and male. The book promises to take you through a minefield of traits of the average Indian male.
Dear Sulaxmi, if you don’t mind a little constructive criticism…the unibrow is no longer infashion; so two separate eyebrows would be far better appreciated. Also, a pout is a very unnatural expression for most people. Marilyn Monroe could carry it off, Narasimha Rao and a goldfish perhaps…
…the Delhi winter gets so cold that no Delhite, except for prisoners and politicians (who in any case often double for one another), dare actually stay in Delhi during the cold season.
MNCs today are the last of the Banana Republics
India’s greatest intellectual is, and always will be, the vegetable vendor.
The Average Indian Male
by Cyrus Broacha
Random House
Rs.199