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Do You Have A Licence For The Monkey?

The old list of ping-pong-ball-headed Indian monkeys that Sellers drew on is now outdated. The time is ripe for a new typology of the urban post-modern Hindustani purush.

Sadda Operator
Princeling
The Gourmet Restaurateur
The Short Pretty City Slicker
The Professional 'Hindu'
The Mainstream Man
The Professional Secularist aka the Media Jerk
The Compubhakt
The Neo Artist-Academic
The Sports Hero
The Actor-Model-Pop Singer
The Indian Writer Writing in English

(Ruchir Joshi is an Indian male who falls between categories 3, 9 and 12.)

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