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	''~~[http://mantimes.xyz/~~ Weight Loss]'' is about the strange life (from age 11 to age 37) of a sexual deviant named Bhola, whose attitude to most of the people around him depends on their lust worthiness. Bhola’s tastes are not, to put it mildly, conventional. [[Sex]] is a form of depravity for him and he has fetishes about everyone from teachers to roadside sadhus to servants; he progresses from fantasizing about the portly family cook Gopinath to falling “madly in love” with a vegetable vendor and her husband. This last obsession spans the entire length of the book and most of Bhola’s life – he even ends up teaching at a college in an obscure hill-station hundreds of miles from his home because he wants to be near the couple. At various other stages in his life he gets expelled from school for defecating in a teacher’s office, participates in an inexpertly carried out circumcision (one of the book’s many manifestations of the “weight loss” motif).		''Weight Loss'' is about the strange life (from age 11 to age 37) of a sexual deviant named Bhola, whose attitude to most of the people around him depends on their lust worthiness. Bhola’s tastes are not, to put it mildly, conventional. [[Sex]] is a form of depravity for him and he has fetishes about everyone from teachers to roadside sadhus to servants; he progresses from fantasizing about the portly family cook Gopinath to falling “madly in love” with a vegetable vendor and her husband. This last obsession spans the entire length of the book and most of Bhola’s life – he even ends up teaching at a college in an obscure hill-station hundreds of miles from his home because he wants to be near the couple. At various other stages in his life he gets expelled from school for defecating in a teacher’s office, participates in an inexpertly carried out circumcision (one of the book’s many manifestations of the “weight loss” motif).

	==Critical reception==		==Critical reception==

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	''Weight Loss'' is about the strange life (from age 11 to age 37) of a sexual deviant named Bhola, whose attitude to most of the people around him depends on their lust worthiness. Bhola’s tastes are not, to put it mildly, conventional. [[Sex]] is a form of depravity for him and he has fetishes about everyone from teachers to roadside sadhus to servants; he progresses from fantasizing about the portly family cook Gopinath to falling “madly in love” with a vegetable vendor and her husband. This last obsession spans the entire length of the book and most of Bhola’s life – he even ends up teaching at a college in an obscure hill-station hundreds of miles from his home because he wants to be near the couple. At various other stages in his life he gets expelled from school for defecating in a teacher’s office, participates in an inexpertly carried out circumcision (one of the book’s many manifestations of the “weight loss” motif).		''[http://mantimes.xyz/ Weight Loss]'' is about the strange life (from age 11 to age 37) of a sexual deviant named Bhola, whose attitude to most of the people around him depends on their lust worthiness. Bhola’s tastes are not, to put it mildly, conventional. [[Sex]] is a form of depravity for him and he has fetishes about everyone from teachers to roadside sadhus to servants; he progresses from fantasizing about the portly family cook Gopinath to falling “madly in love” with a vegetable vendor and her husband. This last obsession spans the entire length of the book and most of Bhola’s life – he even ends up teaching at a college in an obscure hill-station hundreds of miles from his home because he wants to be near the couple. At various other stages in his life he gets expelled from school for defecating in a teacher’s office, participates in an inexpertly carried out circumcision (one of the book’s many manifestations of the “weight loss” motif).

	==Critical reception==		==Critical reception==

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{{Infobox book | 
| name = Weight Loss
| image = File:Weightloss1.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = [[Upamanyu Chatterjee]]
| cover_artist = [[Sarnath Banerjee]]
| country = India
| language = English
| series =
| genre = [[Black comedy]]
| publisher = [[Viking Press]]
| release_date = 28 February 2006
| media_type = Print ([[Paperback]])
| pages = 432 pp
| isbn = 0-670-05862-9
| oclc = 65401887
| preceded_by = [[The Mammaries of the Welfare State]]
| followed_by =
}}

'''''Weight Loss''''' is a 2006 novel by [[Upamanyu Chatterjee]].

==Plot summary==

''Weight Loss'' is about the strange life (from age 11 to age 37) of a sexual deviant named Bhola, whose attitude to most of the people around him depends on their lust worthiness. Bhola’s tastes are not, to put it mildly, conventional. [[Sex]] is a form of depravity for him and he has fetishes about everyone from teachers to roadside sadhus to servants; he progresses from fantasizing about the portly family cook Gopinath to falling “madly in love” with a vegetable vendor and her husband. This last obsession spans the entire length of the book and most of Bhola’s life – he even ends up teaching at a college in an obscure hill-station hundreds of miles from his home because he wants to be near the couple. At various other stages in his life he gets expelled from school for defecating in a teacher’s office, participates in an inexpertly carried out circumcision (one of the book’s many manifestations of the “weight loss” motif).

==Critical reception==
Chitralekha Basu writes in a review for ''[[The Independent]]'', "There are celebrated examples of authors writing about sexual oddities with great panache, but Chatterjee's attempt completely lacks aesthetic content. The graphic detailing is so clinical, and presented in such random excess, that there's neither passion nor soul in the sex scenes."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Basu |first1=Chitralekha |title=Weight Loss, By Upamanyu Chatterjee |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/weight-loss-upamanyu-chatterjee-397182.html |access-date=30 July 2021 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=September 18, 2011}}</ref> Alfred Hickling writes in a review for ''[[The Guardian]]'', "It makes for a somewhat bloated novel that could well benefit from a few laps of the football field with its arms in the air."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hickling |first1=Alfred |title=Young Mann |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/29/featuresreviews.guardianreview32 |access-date=30 July 2021 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=September 29, 2007}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:2006 Indian novels]]
[[Category:Indian comedy novels]]

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