HOME INVENTORY Nandakumar Inventory Item Detail Author: Nandakumar, Prema Title: Atom and the Serpent: A Novel of Campus Life in India Today Price: 39.95 Comments and Notes: Madras: Affiliated East-West Press, 1982 - First Edition - Very Good paperback - 8.5" tall - stiff paper covers - minor upper corner bump, moderate exterior rubbing; otherwise clean, unmarked - 302 pages. Satire of the academic scene on an Indian campus. Five days in the life of Visiting Professor Kamalapati Vatsa at a provincial university: enough to induce a tsunami of words (author), inter- departmental politicking, moral turpitude, discourse on the pros and cons of atomic energy, and of Sanatama Dharma, the "wreck of the Inter-University Cricket Match, invasion of the Vice-Chancellor's villa, and an orgy of arson and violence" and more. Availability: in stock in the U.S. © Copyright Periplus Line LLC 2000 | Updated: September 28, 2008