Author: R Chandrasekar.
“The goat, the sofa and Mr. Swami” is a comical satire on the Indian politics. The protagonist Mr. Swami is an IAS, secretary to the ‘old man’ Keshav Motwani, inefficient PM of India. ‘Old man’ is 82 years old and spends most of the time watching the digitally edited DVD of a girl dancing nude.
Once Shah, the Pakistani PM, expressed his interest to watch the test match between India and Pakistan, which will take place in India. ‘Old man’ agreed and invited Shah to the match and also promised him to show the DVD he has. There were many issues in the Indian administration right from the day the sudden visit of Shah was announced. The rest of the story is about how Swami dealt with the problems. Some of the problems Swami faced were...
- Many bureaucrats wanted to sit on the sofa along with the Prime Ministers and watch the match.
- Every state in India wanted to have their presence during this event.
- Shah wanted to gift a goat to the ‘old man’. This led to uncertainty in accepting it and then on deciding about the goatherds.
The bet by the prime ministers on the match in the end resulted in many funny incidents.
I liked the characterization of 'old man' who watches edited videos every night, wakes up late, makes Swami read the important news from newspaper. If he did not like any one, he transfers them to Mogadishu, a country in Africa. In case of emergency he joins in the hospital and wants Swami to take care of the situation. The conversations between Swami and old man are very funny.
The character of urine drinking, opposition leader, Tiwari is hilarious.
The entire book is filled with rib tickling incidents though some are far from reality. This is a quick read and the price on Flipkart is ok. I think it is because of the bad marketing that many are unaware of this book.
Overall a good read.
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