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Go Back to Paris by Jayakanthan captures with sensitivity the conflict between tradition and modernity in two realms—art and personal life. The novel beautifully portrays the encounter and collision of ideas of Sarangan, a musician, who returns to India with idealist fervor to modernize Carnatic music, with Seshiah, his patriarch father, a veena virtuoso for whom music is divine. And on the other hand Lalitha, a creative writer, who is torn between her passionate love for Sarangan and her devout attachment to her noble husband. An uneasy equilibrium results!