Sagarika Ghose Libri

Uma, young and in love, encounters a very different India after her studies in Oxford than the one she left behind. Those who have grown up in the colonial tradition, speaking English and holding high positions, must make way for those educated in the new Indian tradition. Jai Prakash - an intellectual, from a lower caste, speaking with the wrong accent and raised without privileges - has one significant advantage: he is rooted in India. Uma and her friends can find a sense of belonging in their country again if they accept that it is time for a new elite, the elite of Jai.