The Education of Yuri by Jerry Pinto 12% tax known as the Banda Islands

known as the Banda Islands

ROMILA THAPAR is Emeritus Professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University

In this new man’s presence he begins to consider

and small-town India

The Education of Yuri by Jerry Pinto 12% tax known as the Banda IslandsAUTHOR: Jerry Pinto GENRE: Fiction SYNOPSIS: We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people. At fifteen, Yuri Fonseca of downmarket Mahimsometimes awkward, sometimes lonelygets lucky. He finds a friend, Muzammil Merchant of upmarket Pedder Road. Then he loses him, and almost finds him again. In between, he learns something about jealousy, shame, desire and guilt. He stumbles into his first sexual encounter, and he thinks