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The book was a hardback tome with muslin-thin pages and the dust jacket portrayed a dull red sari. I first encountered Seth’s magnum opus in Calcutta, by then a city that was being rapidly evacuated by those in certain classes, around the time I was thirteen. Do you think it is easy for me, trying to arrange things for all four of my children without His help?’” ‘I know what your hmms mean, young lady, and I can tell you I will not stand for hmms in this matter. The wedding guests were gathered on the lawn. Lata avoided the maternal imperative by looking around the great lamp-lit garden of Prem Nivas. “‘You too will marry a boy I choose,’ said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter. But given how intimately drawn Seth’s canvases usually are, there can be no doubt that the post-liberalisation India of ASG, with its malls and start-ups and luxury condos nestled in the clouds, will throw into sharp contrast the stoic yet hopeful socialism of ASB, set in a newly independent India, where jackals howl in south Delhi, the horrors of Partition simmer in people’s memories, the poor have fewer rights and food to eat than now, Calcutta – not Bombay or Bangalore – is the metropolis of desire in the country, and the height of aspirational lifestyle is the boxwalla’s covenanted job. Once again, whether modern-day matchmaking apps, such as or Truly Madly – surely not Tinder? – are tasked with the job is anybody’s guess. Lata Mehra, the original protagonist, is now over 80 and is hunting for a girl who might marry her favourite grandson. Which could very well be, in part, Modi’s India – ASB was Nehru’s and even included him in the vast roster of characters – since the writing of the sequel has stretched into 2017. Delayed by a few years due to a variety of (hotly discussed) reasons, including a prolonged depression over the end of a relationship, A Suitable Girl is set in contemporary India. There’s a whisper that the much-much-much-awaited A Suitable Girl, the jump sequel to Vikram Seth’s magnum opus A Suitable Boy, will be published soon.