literature goofs

  The Currents of Betul I. Sarni The transfer letter had his name typed in a serif font that felt too formal for a life about to change: Vikram Saxena, Assistant Engineer, Satpura Thermal Power Station, Sarni, Betul District. Sarni was not a town so much as a machine that people lived inside. The chimneys of the thermal station rose over the rooftops like grey sentinels, and the hum of turbines never quite left the air, even at night, even in sleep. Vikram had grown up in a city of glass and traffic; here, the horizon was made of coal dust and Satpura hills, and he found, to his own surprise, that he didn't mind it. He was given a small government quarter near the colony gate, a cot, a table fan, and three years of his life to spend among transformers and turbines. He told himself he would keep his head down, do his job, and let the black rock and steam teach him whatever they had to teach. II. Tapti Jayanti The festival arrived before he expected it to. Multai, an hour from ...