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Selection Day is a coming-of-age story about two talented young brothers, Radha and Manju Kumar, as they train to become professional cricket players. Living in the slums of India with their legit crazy and domineering father, they are desperate to get out. Their cricket skills eventually get noticed by scouters--and then by a rich businessman who offers to sponsor them if they agree to train with a renowned coach (in the hopes that at least one of them will be selected to play on a professional...
Exploring the great nastinessIn the middle of the novel Tommy Sir, the talent scout scouring the maidans of Bombay "who was given to the truth as some men are to drink" ruefully says this about the game he loves:"How did this thing, our shield and chivalry, our Roncesvalles and Excalibur, go over to the other side and become part of the great nastiness?"Tommy Sir is the puritan fan who believes in old-world virtues of principles and righteousness hence does not fit into the modern world and is d...
Even though, on a first glance, Aravind Adiga’s “Selection Day” represents the Cricket Mania in India, it is much deeper than just Cricket. I, personally do not like cricket. And was hoping to hate this book where as I found the story too interesting to quit even though there was cricket in it.Pressurized by the Father, Radha and Manju, dreams to become cricketers. The father who constantly bullies and abuses their sons, has made a contract with God that his son’s will be the best and second bes...
A brilliant chronicler of the contemporary Indian society, Aravind Adiga, whose lacerating stories never fail to make an impact, has chosen India's national obsession - cricket as his shovel this time to excavate a fresh batch of unsettling truths that we've chosen so far to blissfully ignore. His previous novel - The Last Man in Tower was a shocking mirror of the Indian middle-class, a tale that might have been easily true, that reflected the horrifying lengths to which greed could drive humans...
Poignant, beautiful. A coming of age story which covers competitive cricket, the intense bond - part rivalry, part love - between siblings, dysfunctional families, love, loss and ambition.
I very much enjoyed Adiga’s previous novels, The White Tiger and Last Man in Tower. They seemed to open up India to me in a compelling and inclusive way. But this one, unfortunately I found more problematic. The story of two brothers with exceptional cricketing skill urged on by their ambitious father is a compelling enough story in itself, but I found the characters hard to relate to. The father in particular seemed a stereotype and his foibles and frailties simply laughable rather than empathe...
From the slums of Mumbai, a father strongly encourages his two sons to excel at cricket and become selected for the team.Aravind puts the reader in the picture about modern day life in India and you get the feel of Mumbai with the contrasts between the slums and the flash wealthy parts. I enjoyed the local colour and the reflections of the father who had moved from a rural Indian village to the vibrant city of Mumbai.But this story is a drag and very ordinary. It has your usual hopes of the fath...
Novel started off with two brothers from Mumbai trying hard to become the best batsman in the world. But somewhere in the middle it changed direction for no reason and went on to describe the sexual identity crisis of one of them. In the end, it neither had detailing about cricket nor about sexual identity issues. I am still confused what this novel is about.I had high expectation of this book as it was marketed as a novel about two brothers in Mumbai trying to make big in cricket -which is a ve...
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 cha...
There's 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 T...
