Serious men

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"Low-caste Ayyan Mani lives in a Mubai tenement and works in an esteemed research institute as the assistant of top researcher Arvind Acharya. Forever spiteful toward his privileged superiors, Ayyan is deviously mischievous and pulls off a stunt that ends with his half-deaf (but otherwise ordinary) son being proclaimed in the local news as a boy genius. Meanwhile, Arvind is obsessed with proving his theory that extraterrestrial microbes are raining down on Earth from the upper atmosphere. While his theory is promising, an affair with a seductive astrobiologist threatens to cost him his life's work. Naturally, the conniving Ayyan is involved there as well."--www.amazon.com.

subjects: Astronomers,  Social life and customs,  Dalits,  Employees,  Ambition,  Research institutes,  Fiction,  Fiction, satire,  India, fiction,  New York Times reviewed,  Administrative assistants,  Fathers,  Storytelling,  Research