These foolish things

A brilliant comedy of manners about how differnt cultures cope in the modern world. When Ravi Kapoor, an over-worked London doctor, is driven beyond endurance by his disgusting and difficult father-in-law, he asked his wife if they could go away somewhere. His prayers seem to have been answered when his entrepreneurial cousin Sonny comes up with the inspired idea of setting up a retirement home, recreating a lost corner of England in Dunroamin, a converted guesthouse in Brigade Road, Bangalore. Travel and set-up are inexpensive, staff willing and plentiful, and British pensioners can enjoy the hot weather and take mango juice with their gin. Deborah Moggach creates a little world where hilarity is matched with the poignancy of getting old and humour with the darker issues about care for the elderly. A real Indian enterprise is thrilled that this book has publicised their paradise retirement retreat!