John Thomas

There’ve been several books and films on Kashmiri terrorism. Now here’s a novel that tells the migrants side of the story. The protagonist’s family is forced out of their home and made to live in a refugee camp for years. Sadly besides insecurity the state offers them nothing. The focus in the book shifts to New Delhi where bureaucrats are uncaring of commoners’ basic needs and youngsters’ dreams. In the capital as well as in other metros there’s much at stake for the affluent but the poor have little to lose. Probably they never deserved a better life. At a time when India is in the grip of financial warlords this book successfully re-enlivens nationalism preached by Swami Vivekananda and Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. If you like to know where our country is heading go grab a copy and read it. It’s at every leading bookstore in the city. This is the author’s second book this year following the bestselling short story collection MEDDLING WITH LIFE.