She attempted to coach Dina with words to sway her father. Shroff undertook a different sort of campaign: to dissuade her husband from going into what she felt were the jaws of certain death. Never a vacation, never a party–no fun at all in her existence.’ And he keeps slaving like a clerk, like a fanatic, refusing to enjoy life. “‘How disappointing,’ said friends and relatives, shaking their heads. Time only sharpened the imbalance between his fervour to ease suffering and his desire to earn a comfortable income. “But marriage, and the arrival of a son, followed eleven years later by a daughter, changed nothing for Dr.
‘How refreshing, this enthusiasm of the young,’ they smiled, nodding sagely, confident that time would douse the fires of idealism with a healthy dose of cynicism and family responsibilities. Shroff’s career, his devotion to his work was diagnosed, by peers, family members, and senior physicians, as typical of youthful zeal and vigour. “Dina’s father had been a doctor, a GP with a modest practice who followed the Hippocratic oath somewhat more passionately than others of his profession.
Mojtabai, “An Accidental Family,” The New York Times, June, 23, 1996. When both authors are at their very best, Mr. “American readers hearing the name of yet another important English-language novelist from Bombay probably want to know how he compares with Salman Rushdie, so I’ll give it a try: Less hyper, to start with the obvious, less given to flashy virtuoso display, more open to genuine wonder and sorrow at the ways people manage to endure.
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