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beauty in cricket, which we Indians understand deeply, Even though our national game is hockey, we live and breathe cricket, And Aravind Adiga's new novel Selection Day is centered around this passionate sport only, A mix of beating class hierarchy, rags to riches dreams, jealousies and parental pressure, Selection Day makes up for a brilliant read,

The story of Selection day is about Mohan Kumar, a father who believes that his sons, Radha and Manju will one day become either Bradman or Tendulkar.
He believes that both his sons, especially Radha, who Mohan has observed to possess a skill with the bat, can transform their life forever.
Mohan uproots his family from Karnataka and moves to the city where cricketers are made, Mumbai, He starts studying about cricket and developing alternate theories of every aspect of cricketmental, technical and physical, After learning and devising new theories, he would apply the theories on the lives of Manju and Radha,

In Mumbai, Mohan's wife leaves him, which hardens his stance more on making his sons into successful cricketers, He feels that Radha is the chosen one, tall and having a secret contract with "God Subramanya", guaranteeing his success in the field.
But Manju is somewhat different, He does have the skills that every upcoming cricketer requires, but is time to time distracted by science and its mysteries, a subject he loves.
And if given a chance, would love to get into forensic science, rather than cricket, But somehow Manju is unaware, that he is better than his brother in this game, It's like everybody knows who Manju should be, but does Manju know himself

Their hard work and technique draws the attention of N.
S. Kulkarni, aka "Tommy sir", a wellknown journalist and cricket scout in Mumbai, He senses Mohan Kumar's poverty and control freak nature and devises a plan that can help both him and Kumar out of their misery.
He gets in touch with Anand Mehta, a US return son of a rich stockbroker, and Mehta purchases the right to onethird of boys earning for the life in return for Rs,a month.
A venture capital that will lead to a web of jealousies, competitions, and broken spirits, creating a novel so deep and pure that it will leave you mesmerized until the end.


Selection Day is a story

that has many aspects to it, special one being that Adiga appears to be the only writer who has created a story around the postphenomenon of cricket.
Another notable thing is that a sport of passion is shown as a sport of necessity in Selection Day, where Manju is playing to keep up with his father's dreams.


If we speak of characters of Selection Day, each character has come out of our daily lives only, Mohan Kumar, a combination of a father who wants his kids to march towards success and a control freak who doesn't want them to falter.
Fondly known as "Chutney King", he subjects them to daily humiliating body checks that he does himself, making both Manju and Radha uncomfortable.
A control freak father who spends his time observing his sons practice on the field and even correct them when required, and fight for them when necessary.


Radha and Manju are both obedient sons, but time to time indulge in going against their father's wishes, Radha is the one who is to be made into Tendulkar, and Mohan's all hopes lie on him, But Manju is the one who overpowers Radha's talent one day, leaving jealousy and bad competition thriving in the family, A day comes when Manju shares his wishes with the world, a passion for forensic sciencea thrist for college degree, and his new found homo friendship with another competitor in the field Javed, but can all these wishes come true That's left with the reader to decide.


When you read Selection day, you will instantly fall in love with it, The plot defining how heroes are made in India and how they are dropped at a single mistake is something that we come across in our daily lives.
We have seen too many being made and broken down from time to time, but Adiga's writing skill and research for the plot makes it much more alluring when you read Selection Day.
However, if you are reading Adiga for the first time, you might feel a little lost in narration and writing style,

All in all, Selection Day is a book that is commendable and beautiful in its own way, Adiga has outdone himself by writing a book so detailed and passionate, a book that you should not miss, "What we Indians want in literature, at least the kind written in English is not literature at all, but flattery, We want to see ourselves depicted as soulful, sensitive, profound, valorous, wounded, tolerant, and funny beings, All that Jhumpa Lahiri stuff, But the truth is, we are absolutely nothing of that kind, We are animals of the jungle, who will eat our neighbor's children in five minutes, and our own in ten, "
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Why I like Aravind Adiga he doesn't write the flattery,
Few of my favorite lines:
"Nothing is illegal in India, because, technically, everything is illegal in India, "
"Selfobsession without selfbelief: the very definition of the Indian middle class, "
"A cock is this: When you're a boy, it's your manhood, When you're a man, it's your boyhood, "

I loved the book, My recently bought copy of the book carries a sticker, "A Netflix Original Series", Original the series is: it bears no resemblance to the novel whatsoever! Where the series offers a romanticised story and a romantic view of India, Adiga's novel is caustic, humorous, realistic.
There seems to be a lot of confusion about this novel, Is it about cricket Is it about being gay In fact, Selection Day isn't about either: it is a novel about passion and how passion manipulates people.
The central character, the young Manjunath Kumar is the victim of his father's passion for cricket and his passion for Javed Ansari, cricketer, poet, rebel without a cause.
Adiga narrates the story of Manjunath with real skill and avoids turning the novel into another coming out story, yet still captures the undoubtable homoerotic charge between the two young men.
In one encounter in a cricket tent, Adiga captures with a sizzle the attraction between the two males and how this is embedded within the physicality of sport.
Throughout Selection Day, Adiga probes India and all its complexities Hindu, Muslim, ancient, modern, poor, rich, past and future, He describes with precision, satirises with pinpoint brilliance and writes some sardonic one liners, He remarks that India had to end colonialism to see what colonialism could give it: a mess, starting with an outdated sexual code and a country where everything is illegal, but made legal by corruption.
In some respects this novel is a heart of darkness in which corrupt hearts operate within a corrupt society, And in such a situation, how can anyone know who he is, what identity means, and where freedom exists A wonderful read, Aravind Adiga is an author who knocks on the door of an Indian atam and present them as they open it disoriented, with bad hair, in their probably torn nightclothes without any makeup.
Not the best way to present but then there is an element of honesty in it,

". . what we Indians want in literature, at least the kind written in English, is not literature at all but flattery, We want to see ourselves depicted as soulful, sensitive, profound, valorous, wounded, tolerant and funny beings, All that Jhupa Lahiri stuff"

Adiaga's book starts out as a sensitive unflattering portrayal of lives in contemporary Mumbai that revolve around Cricket.
A stringent father pushing his children for career in cricket, coaches and talent hunters who hope to discover the next Sachin Tendulkar, One look at the Shivaji park on a weekend and you know every one of the character is real,

However towards the end, the book becomes a muddled of ideas, lives and chaos which makes you wonder what happened to Mr.
Adiga. Mohan Kumar has a secret contract with his God to raise his sons Radha Kumar and Manju Kumar to be the Noand Nobatsmen respectively in the world.
Little Manju has a natural gift for cricket, a mind bent on science, passion for CSI and discovering sexuality as a confusion, But when he starts bonding with Radha's arch rival Javed Ansari, the entire world goes for a toss,

The Selection Day's exploration of the business of cricket, the nation's obsession for it's cricketing heroes adoring neighbors and the despair when dreams come crashing are sensitively observed.
The fear and shame felt by the adolescent boy around homosexuality is a bit confused, Manju's character stays as an extremely confused teenager, The entire world of characters around him are over the top crazy just like real people!

If only the book hadn't lost its way.
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