Rukun Advani

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Rukun Advani runs a publishing company, Permanent Black, in New Delhi.

Works

• Beethoven Among the Cows {1994}

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Beethoven Among the Cows

Beethoven Among the Cows is a fantasy world of two solipsistic brothers journeying through a maze of interconnected apparitions: newspaper-chomping “probably unholy cows” shielding a protected childhood from the horrors of reality; Chowmein-munching enemies—Mao-tse-Tung, Chou-en-Lai and Nehru—playing hide-and-seek over Ladakh; Cleopatra-abandoning Elizabeth Taylor convalescing from a plethora of real-life husbands and reel-life suitors in suburban Uttar Pradesh; monkey-toting Gorbachev and goldfish-obsessed Raisa discovering Europe and love in Delhi’s Lodi Gardens, and finally, one of the brothers resembling the grand maestro Beethoven when he stopped looking like Zeus and Jehova.

These seemingly lunatic visions of mental anarchy reflect a social realism and keen perception of the changing face of modern India and the world.

Source: Sreeram Chaulia in Sulekha