Summary Of 'Bombay Baumgartner's' Roof Top Dwellers?

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In Baumgartner’s Bombay Baumgartner’s relationship with Lotte is not devoid of sex. They use one another to get their thirst quenched. Their inexplicable affection for one another, in a way reveals their unsatisfied love for their mother land. One takes the other for ‘Something of German Soil’

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In a short story that appeared in Diamond Dust and other stories published in 2000, titled ‘Roof Top Dwellers’, we find a young, ambitious beautiful girl, staying all alone in barsaty (roof top) in the crowded city of Delhi she works as a sub – editor for a literary magazine, Books owned by a politician - Nothing wrong happens to Moyna. Tara, the chief editor and her friend asks her very seriously not to travel by common bus as it would be unsafe. Few come dangerously close to enjoy a pinch and run for their lives, she says. Tara’s husband who pays frequent visit to the rooftop proves to be a perfect gentle man. So is the auto driver. Moyna smokes and drinks gin once when suddenly Tara hosts a party. This is the maximum that she does to enjoy her new woman image. She even asks Tara not to bring men to her rooftop for fear of what the people might

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