Maree and the Prince

Chandigarh is a city that represents the India born in 1947 after independence from the British Raj. The protagonist is a prince of an old royal family of the Punjab. He has been brought up like a prince but is out of sync with his royal heritage. He is democratic to an excessive degree. The novel is his journey through a haze of drinking, through atheism, to a certain faith in some God. On the wa...