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  1. Jan 1, 2010 · Serious Men. Manu Joseph. 3.77. 4,055 ratings470 reviews. A poignant, bitingly funny Indian satire and love story set in a scientific institute and in Mumbai’s humid tenements.

  2. Sep 3, 2010 · To the list you can add Arvind Acharya and Ayyan Mani, the hero and anti­hero (you decide which is which) of Manu Joseph’s smart and funny first novel, “Serious Men.”

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    Serious Men is a 2010 drama fiction novel written by journalist Manu Joseph. [1] The story follows Ayyan Mani, a middle-aged Dalit working as an assistant to a Brahmin astronomer at the Institute of Theory and Research in Mumbai. He lives in a slum with his wife and a son. [2]

  4. Sep 29, 2020 · Manu Joseph’s 2010 drama fiction novel Serious Men has been adapted into a film. Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and directed by Sudhir Mishra, it will be dropping on Netflix on October 2. Joseph’s novel centers around Ayyan Mani, a Dalit who like many others lives in the Mumbai slums.

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  5. Oct 10, 2020 · Manu Joseph’s award-winning debut novel has been lauded for breaking away from the norm in its depiction of the dalit male character as an intelligent but cunning person. In the words of the author, Ayyan Mani is an “exceptional” individual who is a freak, in a way” (Joseph 2010).

  6. Serious Men is a serious, intelligent novel, but nevertheless easy reading. It's never quite comic, but any potential tragedy is undercut.

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  8. Jun 10, 2010 · Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize and shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Ayyan Mani is a man born to greater things, which wouldn't surprise his...