A Long Day's Night

On a small university campus in India, Virendra Chauhan a research scientist and his students are trying to set right a key instrument which has failed to function since its arrival from abroad. The faulty machine and attempts to make it work form the core of the narrative, which is as much an allegory of Indian science as of the human spirit its sorrows and joys, strife and peace, its unending quest. The account is rooted in the quotidian particulars of campus life and of contemporary social reality, though the tightness of form in classical.