The Sane Psychopath

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Book</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>'TERRIFIC PLOT A HORRIFIC CRIME! A DISTURBING STORY NARRATED SUPERBLY.' - SUJOY GHOSH DIRECTOR OF <em>KAHAANI</em> AND <em>JANE-E-JAAN</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>MONSTER MAD-MAN OR COLD-BLOODED KILLER?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When bus driver Shanker Lande goes on a deadly rampage through the streets of Pune the city is left reeling. Ten people are crushed to death seventy maimed for life before he is captured.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Varun Gupte a young ambitious lawyer defies the bar association's boycott and takes on Lande's case shocking everyone. With the trial fast-tracked to manage the public's mounting rage Varun races against time to defend Lande. As the case unfolds Varun must confront difficult questions about justice revenge and the human psyche.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In the process he turns to Dr Shekhar Kanitkar a psychiatrist who lost his own son in the same rampage. Will the two men unearth the truth?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This intense psychological thriller inspired by a real incident masterfully explores the blurred lines between insanity and reason and debates uncomfortable truths about crime and punishment.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Salil Desai is the author of the much-acclaimed Inspector Saralkar Mystery Series. The books are currently being adapted into a web series by Jio Studios.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An alumnus of Film & Television Institute of India (FTII) Salil also conducts intensive workshops in creative fiction writing story and scenario design screenplay writing and film-making at leading liberal arts institutions and media & communication colleges across India.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He is a seasoned newspaper columnist with over 400 articles op-ed pieces features and travelogues in leading dailies. Salil's books have been reviewed in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Hindu New Indian Express The Pioneer Bangalore Mirror DNA First City</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Tribune</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> among others. His work has been praised by veteran authors Dr Shashi Tharoor Shobhaa De and film-makers Sriram Raghavan and Sujoy Ghosh.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Salil was one of the four international authors worldwide selected for the HALD International Writers' Residency in Denmark hosted by the Danish Centre for Writers & Translators in June 2016. He was also invited to Gullkistan Centre for Creativity Iceland and spent the month of May 2023 there as a Resident.</span></p>