An Obedient Father is a 2000 novel by Akhil Sharma.
Set during the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the story is about a corrupt and loathsome bag man who lives with his daughter and granddaughter in a New Delhi slum.
The novel started as a short story that was previously published.
[citation needed] In his interview for the Paris Review's series "My First Time", Sharma described creating his main character as "looking for someone who was guilty appropriately...
So that's how I began to figure how to write about someone like (the main character).