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Vikas SwarupQ & A
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What is the significance of Ram Mohammad Thomas’s name?
Thomas has a recurring dream about a woman with black hair and an obscured face. What does this woman represent, and why is her face obscured?
Describe the role of women in this novel.
Does Thomas change throughout the novel? Is so, how? Which of his experiences do you think changed him the most?
Many of the characters are film fans. Explain the significance of films in the novel.
What does Thomas want from life? How do his desires change over the course of the novel?
Discuss Salim’s role in the novel. How does he function as foil to Thomas?
How does Swarup illustrate corporations as being complicit in the plight of India’s poor?
Why is Thomas unable to kill Prem Kumar? Consider that he believes he has already murdered two other men.
Identify three instances that fantasy encroaches on reality for the novel’s characters. What, specifically, occurs, and what are the outcomes of these respective encroachments?
