THE ELEPHANTA SUITE, by Paul Theroux

MONKEY HILL

Phrases

p.76: "Nothing available, sir", he had begun to smile, which made his intransigence more baffling.

Characters

Audie Blunden - businessman
Beth Blundenm - Audie's wife
Rupesh - "Bill", servant at Agni
Denna - staff at Agni
Nagaraj - Doctor of the Agni Spa
Anna Hunphunwoshi - staff at Agni, massage girl
Sanjeev - friend of Dr. Nagaraj
Prithi - staff at Agni, massage girl
Satish - staff at Agni, massage boy
Vikram - yoga instructor
J. J. Shah - businessman owner of Agni Spa and lawyer
Rajagalopalachari - manager of the Agni Spa


THE GETWAY OF INDIA

Phrases

p.106: She did not resist, yet she made a sound in her throat, swallwing, as thought bracing herself; the sort of sucking breath a person draws just before taking a risk.

Characters

Dwight Huntsinger - lawyer and moneyman
M. V. Desai - industrialist
Maureen - Dwight's wife
J. J. Shah -  businessman owner of Agni Spa and lawyer (see Monkey hill)
Kohut - business coleague
Sheeley - business coleague

Audie Blunden - businessman (see Monkey hill)

Manoj Verma - product analyst

Missa Bhatia - Mr. M. V. Desai's assistant

R. R. K. Prakashnarayan - Mr. M. V. Desai's lawyer

Ravi Ramachandran - 

Taljinder Singh - 

Miss Sheela Chakravarty - 

Indru - girl dressed in white

Ralph Picard - copywright infringement

Mr. Gopinathan - industrialist, software developer

Mrs. Gopinathan - Mr. Gopinathan's wife

Surekha Shakar Vellore - women at blind auction, "Winky"

Sumitra - dancing girl, does menial jobs

Padmini - also does menial jobs

Todd Pinsker - Hollywood lawyer 

Zack - Todd's son, into movie

THE ELEPHANT GOD

Phrases

p.192: They seemed concocted to her now, and besieged in up-close India all she tought of  was Hieronymus Bosch [...]
p.203: Hands that help are better than lips that pray
p.255: "How can I resolve your issues today?" was a sentence she drilled at InfoTech, but not one that Swami would ever have spoken

Characters

Alice Durand - young american tourist in India
Stella - Alice's friend back in the US and travel mate

Todd Pinsker - Hollywood lawyer 

Zack - Todd's son, into movie

Amitabh - indian young man, met Alice in the train
Swami - cult master at Ashram
Prithi - indian young girl, follows Swami
Priyanka - indian young girl, follows Swami
Miss Gosh - supervisor at InfoTech
someone - mahout, the elephant keeper
someone - the mahout's wife
someone - the mahout's younger daughter
Mysore - the mahout's older daughter