The millenniums were clashing, as they so often do, on a single Indian street.
"So far as I know," he says, "my grandfather didn't kill a single Indian.
Even the moderates were shocked because not a single Indian was appointed to the commission.
It does not have a single Indian character in it and Seth has resisted being classified as an Indian writer.
Statistically, two out of three urban Indians have personally experienced corruption; anecdotally, every single Indian seems to have been asked for a bribe.
As if to escape the Indian pigeonhole, Mr Seth has set his new novel in London and included not a single Indian character.
While no single Indian-art theft can match the Gardner Museum robbery in magnitude, there are plenty of smaller thefts noted on the tribal art dealers' site.
After recently testing a pilot about a group of single Indian women living together, Sony, one of India's leading networks, dropped the experiment.
In 1927, however, the British government appointed a constitutional reform commission under Sir John Simon, a prominent English lawyer and politician, that did not contain a single Indian.
But it did not repeat the newspaper rule that 51% of the equity must be held by a single Indian investor.
