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Updated: May 07, 2021 12:16 IST With an insider’s familiarity, Lindsay Pereira presents brutally honest vignettes of Mumbai’s Roman Catholic community Share Article AAA With an insider’s familiarity, Lindsay Pereira presents brutally honest vignettes of Mumbai’s Roman Catholic community Reminiscent of Sartre’s existential play No Exit, the characters in Lindsay Pereira’s debut novel, Gods and Ends, are trapped in a shared living space they cannot leave a chawl named Obrigado Mansion. Set in the Catholic neighbourhood of Orlem in suburban Bombay of the 70s, the book is a scathing commentary on the local Roman Catholic community, its idiosyncrasies and hypocrisies, and religion. Disillusionment runs deep among the working-class alcoholic men, embittered women, and desperate young girls dreaming of escape from the confines of their oppressive matchbox-sized homes in Obrigado Mansion. The irony of the chawl’s name is not lost on th ....
A menagerie of people who wither away April 06, 2021 In festive spirit: The only get-together of sorts the residents of Obrigado Mansion manage is on Christmas Eve - AADESH CHOUDHARI In festive spirit: The only get-together of sorts the residents of Obrigado Mansion manage is on Christmas Eve - AADESH CHOUDHARI× Lindsay Pereira’s debut novel ‘Gods And Ends’ is a stark and fearless portrayal of the Roman Catholic community in the Bombay of yore It is set in Obrigado Mansion in Orlem a ghetto of Roman Catholics, largely from Goa Pereira has woven into the tapestry of Bombay the stories and backstories of a community that has been part of the metropolis for long, but has clung to the fringes ....