A Son of the Circus

1. THE CROW ON THE CEILING FAN Blood From Dwarfs 19 The Doctor Dwells on Lady Duckworth's Breasts 28 Mr Lal Has Missed the Net 40 2. THE UPSETTING NEWS Still Tingling 48 The Famous Twin 53 The Doctor as Closet Screenwriter 58 Dr Daruwalla Is Stricken with Self-doubt 69 Because an Elephant Stepped on a Seesaw 72 3. THE REAL POLICEMAN Mrs Dogar Reminds Farrokh of Someone Else 82 Not a Wise Choice of People to Offend 88 A Real Detective at Work 92 How the Doctor's Mind Will Wander 103 4. THE OLD DAYS The Bully 105 Austrian Interlude 111 Inexplicable Hairlessness 118 Stuck in the Past 123 5. THE VERMIN Learning the Movie Business 127 But Had He Learned Anything Worth Knowing? 139 Not the Curry 144 A Slum Is Born 149 The Camphor Man 158 6. THE FIRST ONE OUT Separated at Birth 160 A Knack for Offending People 167 What if Mrs Dogar Was a Hijra? 173 Load Cycle 178 7. DR DARUWALLA HIDES IN HIS BEDROOM Now the Elephants Will Be Angry 188 The First-Floor Dogs 197 Inoperable 204 8. TOO MANY MESSAGES For Once, The Jesuits Don't Know Everything 211 The Same Old Scare; a Brand-New Threat 218 The Skywalk 225 9. SECOND HONEYMOON Before His Conversion, Farrokh Mocks the Faithful 228 The Doctor Is Turned On 232 The Doctor Encounters a Sex-Change-in-Progress 240 10. CROSSED PATHS Testing for Syphilis 248 A Literary Seduction 250 Lunch Is Followed by Depression 257 A Dirty Hippie 264 11.THE DILDO Behind Every Journey Is a Reason 271 A Memorable Arrival 276 Our Friend, the Real Policeman 286 The Unwitting Courier 296 12. THE RATS Four Baths 300 With Dieter 307 Nancy Gets Sick 313 13. NOT A DREAM A Beautiful Stranger 320 Nancy Is A Witness 322 The Getaway 327 The Wrong Toe 335 Farrokh Is Converted 339 The Doctor and His Patient Are Reunited 348 14. TWENTY YEARS A Complete Woman, but One Who Hates Women 351 Remembering Aunt Promila 357 A Childless Couple Searches for Rahul 359 The Police Know the Movie Is Innocent 366 A View of Two Marriages at a Vulnerable Hour 368 What the Dwarf Sees 372 15 DHAR'S TWIN Three Old Missionaries Fall Asleep 377 Early Indications of Mistaken Identity 382 The Wrong Taxi-Walla 388 Proselyte-Hunting Among the Prostitutes 390 All Together - in One Small Apartment 399 Free Will 401 Standing Still: An Exercise 410 Bird-Shit Boy 414 16. MR GARG'S GIRL A Little Something Venereal 420 Martin Luther is Put to Dubious Use 426 Another Warning 433 Madhu Uses Her Tongue 435 A Meeting at Crime Branch Headquarters 438 No Motive 447 Martin's Mother Makes Him Sick 453 A Half-Dozen Cobras 457 At the Mission, Farrokh Is Inspired 460 Tetracycline 471 17. STRANGE CUSTOMS Southern California 475 Turkey (Bird and Country) 488 Two Different Men, Both Wide Awake 499 18. A STORY SET IN MOTION BY THE VIRGIN MARY Limo Roulette 504 Mother Mary 513 Is There a Gene for It, Whatever It Is? 517 The Enigmatic Actor 523 Something Rather Odd 530 19. OUR LADY OF VICTORIES Another Author in Search of an Ending 537 The Way It Happened to Mr Lal 543 Some Small Tragedy 548 Not a Romantic Comedy 555 A Make-Believe Death; the Real Children 564 20. THE BRIBE Time to Slip Away 570 Bedbugs Ahead 572 Raging Hormones 574 The Hawaiian Shirt 577 The Actor Guesses Right 580 Farrokh Remembers the Crow 591 A Three-Dollar Bill? 596 Just Some Old Attraction-Repulsion Kind of Thing 599 21. ESCAPING MAHARASHTRA Ready for Rabies 602 Lucky Day 603 Out of Place at the Taj 605 Too Loud for a Library 512 A Misunderstanding at the Urinal 619 Fear No Evil 623 22. THE TEMPTATION OF DR DARUWALLA On the Road to Junagadh 631 A Racist Chimpanzee 637 A Perfect Ending 642 The Night of 10,000 Steps 649 23. LEAVING THE CHILDREN Not Charlton Heston 658 Jesus in the Parking Lot 664 Little India 672 24. THE DEVIL HERSELF Getting Ready for Rahul 686 Just Dancing 695 Happy New Year 703 'Auld Lang Syne' 713 25. JUBILEE DAY No Monkey 720 The Wrong Madhu 728 Take Me Home 737 26. GOOD-BYE, BOMBAY Well, Then 753 Not a Word 761 Dr Daruwalla Decides 765 Just Close Your Eyes 770 Just India 781 27. EPILOGUE The Volunteer 787 The Bottommost Drawer 795 Sort of Fading Now 800 Allowed to Use the Lift at Last 813 Not the Dwarfs 819