Percy

There is something comical and pathetic about Percy an awkward young man of 28 living alone with his aged mother in an old house tucked away in the Parsi colony in Bombay a very middleclass setting Though Banubai Percys mother utterly dominates Percys life she does so with love and kindness Percy holds a clerical position in a small Unani pharmacy famous for its sexual restoratives It is only at his place of work where he wields some power that Percy displays a measure of authority and selfassurance One day Percy discovers a fraud in the office accounts as a consequence of which one of the junior employees is sacked This event has farreaching consequences in the lives of Percy and Banubai Percys peace is soon to be shattered