Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city\'s slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter.
An Obedient Father takes the reader to an India that is both far away and real - into the mind of a character as tormented, funny, and ambiguous as one of Dostoevsky\'s anti-heroes..
Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city\'s slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter