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An Excerpt from Between the Assassinations

Before he wrote The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga wrote Between the Assassinations, a collection of short stories about life in the fictional city of Kittur. Read an excerpt from one of the stories.

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After a lunch of prawn curry and rice at the Bunder, you may want to visit the Lighthouse Hill and its vicinity. The famous lighthouse, built by the Portuguese and renovated by the British, is no longer in use.

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