Book-A-Table supper club ·
A Suitable Boy: a wedding-season lunch
On 9 May 2026, Book-A-Table turned their Bengaluru living room into a wedding-season drawing room for Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, with marigold garlands, maroon drapes, a brocade sari backdrop and a North Indian spread served in clay handis.
- The book
- A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
- When
- 9 May 2026
- Where
- The sisters' home, Bengaluru
- Format
- A lunch spread with a moderated discussion
The bookWhy A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy (1993) is one of the longest novels ever published in English. Set in the early 1950s in newly independent India, it follows four families, held together by Mrs. Rupa Mehra's determination to find a suitable husband for her daughter Lata.
A book that begins with a wedding called for a room that looked like one. The sisters were up a ladder that morning, swagging maroon drapes and marigold garlands from the ceiling, and baskets of marigolds were piled against a red-and-gold brocade sari.
At the tableHow the afternoon went
- Chaat on crisp puris, egg curry over rice, and rice served from a clay handi.
- Candied orange slices, sticky and bright, and gin and tonics with a twist of orange.
- Guests in saris and kurtas, and the house's most suitable boy, the dog, in a garland of his own.
In the glassGin & tonic, a twist of orangeJaisalmer Indian Craft Gin and Sepoy & Co. Indian tonic over ice, finished with an orange wheel in a balloon glass. Wedding-season colours, right down to the garnish.More from the bar cart →
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Questions about this supper
When was the A Suitable Boy supper club?
Book-A-Table's A Suitable Boy supper club, based on the book by Vikram Seth, took place on 9 May 2026 at the sisters' home in Bengaluru.
Will there be another edition like this?
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