Reviewing Shashi Tharoor's Five Dollar Smile

The lockdown dut to COVID-19 gave us the time that we craved since eternity. You can do whatever you feel, read, write, draw, and whatever you like. Being a bibliophile, I always looked for new books to read over. 

"Five Dollar Smile" by Shashi Tharoor, was suggested and given by a friend to me. The book contains 14 short stories and a farce, written by him in his years of teens and early adulthood. 

The plots of the story revolved along with the places he traveled with his father like Mumbai, Calcutta, and Kerala. The story Five Dollar Smile, on which the book is named depicted the scenario of the real scenario of the orphanages of the country. The other stories, like The Boutique, a simple story, and The Political Murder, heinous crime of an influential political figure, both based on Calcutta. Stories like The Pyre was more or less a reality on Tharoor's life.

The farce "Twenty-two Months in the Life of a Dog" was based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel Dog's Heart. The plot was based on the time of the Emergency rule, imposed by Indira Gandhi.

I loved reading this book and was fascinated by the work of Shashi Tharoor. I am eagerly waiting to read his other works.