Setting

The short story “The Boss Came to Dinner” by Bhisham Sahni appears to take place in India, in the household of a modern, Westernized family. Shamnath and his wife speak English to each other, and Shamnath’s boss is American. However, the rest of his colleagues are Indian, which suggests that Shamnath is not living in a foreign country, such as America, and that it is his boss who is a foreigner. However, Shamnath seems to f...