The Vendor Of Sweets

While the colourful sweetmeats are frying in the kitchen Jagan immerses himself in his copy of the Bhagavad Gita. A widower of firm Gandhian principles Jagan nonetheless harbours a warm and embarrassed affection for his wastrel son Mali. Yet even Jagan's patience begins to fray when Mali descends on the sleepy city of Malgudi full of modern notions with a new half-American wife and a grand plan for selling novel-writing machines. From different generations and different cultures father and son are forced to confront each other and are taken by surprise . . .