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The main character in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is Sampath Chawla, a young Indian man who is caught in the wrath of a family married to the social mores of a bureaucratically shackled family. Sampath is incapable of organizing his thoughts and his life within the confines of the bureaucratic wheel, and he flows from station to station in life, failing at everything he attempts. Sampath works as a sorter in the mailroom at the post office in his hometown of Shahkot, in India, and he performs his menial job with as much rote and thoughtlessness as possible.
From the outset of the novel, Sampath's mother, Kulfi, is depicted in magical terms.
Throughout the novel, she expresses a sense of vague longing, that lonely sensation one has when it is clear that there exists some purpose or plan for one's life but the...
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