This collection of short stories is inspired and mostly set in the Indian city of Bangalore. The Red Carpet is an homage to the city and they people who live there, people who face a difficult transition from a tradition bound life, to an worldly, western style life. These stories reflect this difficult transition and the pyscholgical consequences that come along with these changes.
Lavanyan Sankaran has a love of this city, you can read it in every story. While soem stories are better than others, all hold this love of the city. The main characters are mostly the younger generation, working to move away from the strict traditions of the parents, and yet still, as through some genetic code, attracted to those traditons in the midst of the confusion of western ideals.
A satisfying collection of stories, The Red Carpet was enjoyable all the way through. You have the feeling the author has personally known all the people who inhabit the book. And understood every one of them.
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