#ASuitableBoy is at its heart about love and romance, but there are so many subplots and little side stories set in a historical context. Consider this one. In the First General election in Free India, even as everyone is delightedly queuing up to vote, Arun Mehra is aloof.
Attired in his western clothes drinking in his Club, he is disdainful of all the excitement of electing your new Government. "Things were much better", he says, "when the British were in charge". I couldn't help reflecting that it must have been a commonly held view at the time.
Just as now many Indians are perfectly content with the authoritarian, unaccountable, violent, discriminatory, bigoted lot who currently rule India. It is not they don't recognize the latent fascism, rather they support it because personally, they benefit from such a regime.
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