The Strange Case of Billy Biswas [Review] by Arun Joshi. A man gets tired of society in The Strange Case of Billy Biswas. This book is a fascinating dive into the human mind, a common trope in almost every book, but this especially was fascinating to me. Billy is our protagonist, who grew up in a rich aristocratic lifestyle. It's all to easy for him but, that's the lifestyle he's not completely comfortable with. On a trip with his valet, he gets to witness a tribal dance that connects with him on a spiritual level, so much so that he goes into depression during the following days, and sometimes has vivid hallucinations of it. Cut to New York years later where Billy is studying Anthropology, while his parents think he's studying Engineering. This spotlights how society favors certain educations and occupations rather than letting people carve their own path. Here, he also meets two people, his only friends, and the only people who truly understand him; Tuul...
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