Always a sucker for cultural and arty events, I was certainly excited on reading that Faculty of English at MS University had organized a discussion on German novelist and short-story writer Franz Kafka’s novella ‘Die Verwandlung/Metamorphoses’ at KY Kantak Seminar Room; the notice put up at Faculty of Business Administration didn’t mention an address, and the management staff was completely clueless, so all I could get was ‘KY Kantak Seminar Room at 15:00’and ‘Organized by Faculty of English’ – they were obviously implying “You do the math!”. So I picked up a German friend, equally thrilled to hear an Indian’s perspective on the author’s seminal work, which involves a man’s su