It is believed that a poem must consist lines that rhyme with each other. However, this is a misconception. It is absolutely fine to write a poem in a free-flowing form without the lines rhyming anywhere.
The poetry set of debutant poet Pratibha Panghal in her book Listen To The Thorn Birds has a number of poems where none of the lines rhyme but they easily succeed in generating a poetic effect. In fact, most of them poems appear like prose paragraphs but they are written in a completely poetic manner.
Listen To The Thorn Birds largely consists of poems that reflect the pain and heartbreak a person goes through. The poet has achieved this by using direct language and not beating around the bush. Despite a majority of poems expressing pain or sadness, they are written in such a poetic way that you end by being impressed by the use of words instead of being depressed. This, however, doesn’t mean that you don’t feel the poet’s pain.
Some of the most impressive poems from the book include, The Magician And The Children, A Heart With Holes, Albatross, Rains, Palm Reading, She Walks The Tight Rope, On Ageing and Vaccine For Violence.
Another positive aspect about the book is that the poet has used simple, everyday words and sentences to express herself. There is no use of elite English that only a small percentage of Indians understand. But despite the simplicity, the text is rich. In other words, a good balance has been maintained between simplicity and richness.
But Listen To The Thorn Birds is not all about the personal pain. Panghal has also penned a few poems that speak about environmental degradation and destroying of nature in the name of development. A few of them like Elephant Woes and Water also speak about her love and concern for animals. An additional feature of the book are the beautiful paintings and sketches that enhance the words.
Although there is no major negative point in the book, one could have hoped to find at least a few poems that displayed happiness.
Overall:Listen To The Thorn Birds succeeds in moving you.
Since more than a decade, Ashwin Sanghi has gained name and fame for his books in his ‘Bharat Series’. Under its umbrella, he has presented stories that are a mixture of mythology or history with the contemporary times amidst the background of high profile crimes. But with Razor Sharp, the author has dwelled into the serial killer zone for the first time.
The book is set in today’s times in Mumbai. The city is rocked by the murder of a man in an unusual style. His hands are tied behind with a rope, his mouth stuffed with food-grains and a knife is stabbed into the left side of his chest. Senior cop Shinde is given the responsibility of the case. He unofficially takes the help of former senior cop and his close friend Prakash Kadam, better known as Kutta Kadam in police circles.
The middle-aged Kadam once had a promising career in the Mumbai police force but his honesty and morals cost him his job. But that’s not all. He is not in the best of physical and mental health and his current lifestyle is making it worse. A major reason for this is a disturbing past incident which led to his wife Sarla dumping him.
However, despite his physical and mental condition, Kadam is a genius when it comes to solving crime. He has a loving and equally intelligent daughter Ketul, a lawyer, who always helps him in solving complicated criminal cases. Kadam and Ketul’s workload increases as the killer doesn’t stop at just one murder.
There is no doubt that stories of serial killers are done to death, not just in literature but also in other forms of entertainment. Despite that, Razor Sharp doesn’t get uninteresting due to various reasons.
The biggest being the character of the protagonist and his daughter. There is no doubt that the character of the investigator reeling with a dark past has become a cliché. But Kadam teaming up with his daughter Ketul brings freshness to the scene. Their bond is loving, although not overtly. There are various moments in the book where one smiles because of their conversations.
Although the book is an out-and-out contemporary crime thriller, one finds Sanghi’s love for Hindu mythology somewhere in it. At one point, his fondness for anagrams is also visible. This doesn’t harm the book. In fact, it makes it stand apart from other murder mysteries.
The author’s gripping narrative is felt here too. Hence, like his previous works, the book becomes a fast read with no dull moment. Once again, his language is easy to grasp as it’s a smart mixture of simplicity and richness.
Razor Sharp also has the presence of political drama that is somewhere linked to the case. Although this adds to the interest, this part should have been simpler. The presence of too many characters who are only addressed by their surnames (Rane, Gaikwad, Patil, Chavan, etc) adds some confusion. The angle of the fake godman Momuma adds intrigue. But one later feels that this part didn’t deserve much footage. In other words, both these sub-plots could have been shortened and this would have made the book crisper.
There are also cuss words in a Sanghi novel for the first time. There is no doubt that this is how people converse, both criminals and the ones going after them, but there is an overdose of it.
Lastly, the identity of the serial killer takes you by surprise, although it doesn’t give you a jolt. But the situation in which the reveal happens adds a lot of thrill.
Overall: Ashwin Sanghi’s first plunge in the serial killer zone with Razor Sharp turns out to be an interesting read.
Author Ashwin Sanghi is known for consistently coming up with high quality contemporary thrillers connected to either history or mythology or both. After exploring beliefs like Christianity, Hinduism and Islam, his latest offering The Magicians Of Mazda, the seventh book in his Bharat series, throws light on the history of Parsis or Zoroastrians.
The book, as a whole, is a thriller revolving around a Parsi scientist Jim Dastoor, who is settled in the US after being born and brought up in India. He has produced a substance called Humza Dura that has the ability to cure various serious ailments. He wants all of humanity to benefit from his invention. Jim lives with his wife Linda, a history scholar with a deep interest in religion and spirituality.
During the final stages of his experiment, Jim is kidnapped by evil forces from pharmaceutical industry as they feel his finding is linked to the ancient secret of the Athravan Star. He is kept confined in inhuman conditions all the way in Tehran, Iran. Linda makes it her mission to get Jim rescued with timely help from quite a few individuals. Similarly, the story has a number of other interesting characters and sub-plots.
Sanghi continues with his favorite non-linear style of narration, as expected, in The Magicians Of Mazda. In between the story of Jim and Linda, the author gives a deep account of the history of Parsis, who had to migrate to India from Iran after facing extreme atrocities over there. And like his previous books, this one too is a page-turner.
The Magicians Of Mazda also continues the author’s tradition of providing the reader with plenty of knowledge. This time one gets to know the life in Iran and its inhabitants.
Sanghi has once again taken historical accounts and weaved various fictional tales around them. Like before, he has also taken care to not go overboard in adding fiction to facts most of the times, except on one instance where the reader is presented with a hypothesis about Parsis originally belonging to India itself.
It is also during this part and the portions where Jim’s granny is narrating the history of Parsis that the reader is bombarded with too much of information, which becomes difficult to grasp and remember.
But these points don’t become major roadblocks for The Magicians Of Mazda since one surely gets the fulfilling experience of reading a Sanghi novel from the various positives.
To say that the Coronavirus or COVID-19 played havoc in the world in the last two years or so would be an understatement. It made people go through hell and changed the way of life for the entire world.
This was more evident during the second wave of the virus. When the first wave subsided, many of us assumed that the worst was over but that turned out to be false and how. Many healthy individuals literally went through horrid times.
One of those unfortunate ones was author Karthik K B Rao. His book On The Deathbed: My Encounter With The COVID-19 Virus lists down his ordeal after getting infected and his fightback in a narrative form.
Karthik and his wife Sushma got infected with the virus in May 2021. While his wife’s condition wasn’t severe, the same wasn’t the case with Karthik. The virus started affecting him at such a high level that he started facing numerous issues, including low oxygen levels. It was an uphill task to get him admitted in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) of a government hospital.
But that wasn’t the end of the ordeal for Karthik. It was actually the beginning. He had to be shifted to a private hospital in the middle of the night as his condition deteriorated further and there were doubts being raised about his survival.
The aforementioned description of the content might give an idea that On The Deathbed is a sad or, at least, a very serious book. But that is far from the case. While the book does narrate how he went through hell and had to struggle even to carry out the simplest of tasks as answering nature’s calls, it is told in an engaging manner with regular doses of witty and, at times, dark humor.
In fact, after finishing the initial few pages itself, I forgot that On The Deathbed is non-fiction. It actually appears more like those survival genre films like Trapped (2017). Just like the film, we feel for the protagonist here as he goes through a rollercoaster ride of survival. There is a feeling of relief in the end, although we know beforehand that Karthik has survived.
A surprise element is the portion in the end written by his wife Sushma. One realizes that she went through a bigger hell than her husband. Even this aspect is narrated like gripping fiction.
The author is able to achieve the means despite using simple, everyday language that can appeal even to an ordinary layman, just like his earlier book The Mahabharata Code.
The only minus point here is the author addressing the virus as ‘Chinki virus’ once. This could have been avoided as it sounds problematic.
Overall:On The Deathbed: My Encounter With The COVID-19 Virus is a gripping tale of survival of a couple that went through hell during the second wave.
Gehraiyaan is getting a mixed response, as expected from a film of such a complex nature. I loved it for various reasons, including the narrative that transforms from a story of cheating to an emotional drama and finally a crime thriller. But this isn’t a review of the film.
Gehraiyaan made me think a lot. One thing that stayed on my mind the most was one selfish character. In fact, I feel this is one of the most selfish characters I have seen in a long time. I also felt that if we look at the story from his perspective, it can be an interesting experiment. After finishing the piece, I realized this is how dark and negative characters appear in James Hadley Chase’s novels.
Being an ardent fan of his crime books since more than a decade, I guess my subconscious wrote the article in this way.
This blog article about Gehraiyaan is a tribute to the great late storyteller, although it didn’t start out that way.
There are SPOILERS ahead. If you haven’t seen Gehraiyaan, please don’t read further.
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I have imagined the following piece on how Zain would narrate his life story from Gehraiyaan from his perspective in James Hadley Chase style:-
Right now, I am drenched in salty water. I am lying submerged in the great Arabian Sea; probably living the last couple of minutes of my life. I don’t know if I have landed here due to my cruel selfishness or that damned wine bottle. I have heard people say that when your end is near, your whole life plays out in your mind. I am experiencing that right now.
I feel my childhood wasn’t much different than my condition right now. That’s what I felt growing up with a father who was a wife beater. After not being able to take it more, I left home.
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We were always a part of the lower middle-class. So, I was eager to make it big in terms of wealth. I thought of going into real estate, which is considered the money-minting field. I became an assistant to the big shark in the business and slowly rose up the ranks. I made it big and I made it quick. I now had everything I dreamt of – a big house, car and also a private yatch.
To make my life complete, destiny got me introduced to the pretty Tia, the daughter of the real estate shark I was assistant to. We were drawn to each other in no time and got engaged. I also need to mention that my to-be in laws had also invested heavily in my personal real estate business. I didn’t care about this as me and Tia were looking ahead to get married. Until I had a chance encounter with the gorgeous Alisha, cousin of Tia, during our Alibaug holiday.
It is said that once you start chasing pleasures, of all kinds, there is no full stop. One never feels satisfied and that’s exactly what happened with me. I was living a luxurious life but I wanted more. I was engaged and Alisha was in a six-year old relationship with her boyfriend Karan. But I couldn’t take my eyes off her when I was first introduced to her. In fact, I took no time to flirt with her.
Alisha was going through a troubled time in her relationship with Karan, whose career as a novelist was just not taking off. Alisha, on the other hand, was also struggling to launch her Yoga app. In other words, there couldn’t be a better opportunity for me! I latched onto the situation.
Alisha started responding to my flirtatious messages. One day she also lied about my message to her cousin. I took advantage of my back pain to get it cured by Alisha’s Yoga techniques in order to get close to her. From here on, it was just a matter of time before we ended up in bed… repeatedly!
Deepika Padukone and Siddhant Chaturvedi in Gehraiyaan
Alisha was going through a bad patch with Karan. But my relationship with Tia was fine. So what was I doing in bed with another woman? Well, I didn’t think of that. I was getting it, so I took it. Simple!
I also got the crucial funding for Alisha’s Yoga app through my business with my to-be in laws. I also got her a posh studio. She felt I was doing it as a favor but I wasn’t. I actually did it through dubious means and that too in a way that it would benefit me in the end. Of course, she didn’t know this.
Alisha’s situation with Karan worsened to such a level that she broke up with him. Now my temptation had no limits. Meanwhile, Alisha also got pregnant with my child. I now wanted her in my life… forever. To hell with Tia. So what if her parents had invested in my business? I decided to return all the investment and call it quits. It was just a matter of time now, or so I thought.
But till the time I become capable to repay them, I had to pretend to be in a relationship with Tia. This also meant celebrating my third anniversary with her, although in my mind I had already broken up. Yes, I was fooling her into believing that I was still in love with her and wanted to marry her. Whereas, all I was waiting was to just throw her out of my life and her parents out of my business.
But an unannounced storm came into my life. Rather, it came in someone else’s life but it affected me greatly. A man we did business and had stakes with got arrested for financial fraud. The case kept getting murkier by the day and it reached a stage where I could have got into trouble. If this wasn’t enough, my bluff about Alisha’s studio was out too as the municipality realized it was bought by crook. I tried to control Alisha to cover my lies about her studio.
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But she was getting impatient. She also wanted full and open commitment. But I had to continue my sham affair with Tia for my benefit. I needed her to sell her beach house to get me out of trouble but I lied to her that we need to keep it for mortgage for a year. When she doubted my intentions, I pretended to be a victim and regained her sympathy and love. The fake hugs and kisses continued. Poor thing had no idea how she was being used by me materially and emotionally; by a man who no longer loved her. In fact, she felt guilty when, actually, she was the victim.
Alisha, on the other hand, was now really getting out of control. She landed up at my office and later outside Tia’s place and threatened to expose our secret relationship. I somehow controlled her and gained her sympathy. I succeeded in taking her to a date on my yatch in the sea… Where it all began.
The date was a sham too. In reality, I wanted to get rid of her. I mixed a large dose of her sleeping pills in her wine without her knowledge; at least this is what I thought. But she refused to drink. I now feel she knew my cruel intentions. I tried to strangulate her and throw her into the sea for good. But she got the better of me and I slipped over that wine bottle and got thrown into the sea instead.
I don’t know if I have landed here due to my cruel selfishness or that damned wine bottle.
The title of author Akshat Gupta’s novel The Hidden Hindu might make heads turn, thinking it might be on controversial lines. But that is far from the case. The book is a mystery thriller rooted in India’s mythology and history. It’s another addition to this genre that has become popular over the years.
The book revolves around an unusual investigation of the mysterious Aghori Sadhu. He is captured by India’s authorities and brought to the Ross Island in south India for interrogation. Dr Srinivasan heads the investigation along with Dr Shahista, Dr Batra and few other experts. The Aghori Sadhu introduced himself as Om Shastri.
But the investigating team is dumbfounded when he also claims to be various people from India’s mythology and history; right from the era of Ramayana and Mahabharata till the Indian freedom movement. The team rubbishes his claims of him being alive since thousands of years. So, who exactly is Om Shastri?
The biggest plus point of The Hidden Hindu is its fast pace. A large majority of the story takes place in a closed room, where a group of people are investigating, discussing and debating. This somewhere reminds you of 12 Angry Men (1957). The situation results in a book that can be completed in a jiffy.
At some point of time, The Hidden Hindu features the story of lord Dhanwantari and the father of Indian surgery Sushruta. This comes across as an interesting episode since this part of Indian history is not explored in the many novels that have come out of this genre.
These plus points, however, aren’t enough to overshadow the negatives. The book lags behind in the important aspects of story and its narration. For a large number of the pages, nothing concrete happens in terms of plot development as the investigation just keeps going on. The aforementioned episode about Dhanwantari and Sushruta comes as a respite but it’s certainly not enough.
The reader is also not given proper insight into the investigating team. We are not told the back story of even the senior members of the team and the relation between them.
Furthermore, the writing lacks richness. Just being a fast-paced novel isn’t enough. The language should be impressive enough to even sail through the dry periods, which doesn’t happen here. The quality of the writing is felt the most in the ending portion, which is all over the place.
After mixing contemporary issues with history and mythology in more than a handful of novels in his Bharata Series, author Ashwin Sanghi has become a master at that. He has continued the same with his latest offering The Vault Of Vishnu. And once again, the story he has told is way different than any of his previous books.
This time, the author has focused on the troubled political relationship between India and China. It starts off with a group of Indian soldiers mercilessly killed by the Chinese forces in Doklam. But what’s odd in the killings is that the Chinese forces appear like a mixture of humans and monkeys.
Paramjit Khurana aka Pam of the DRDO (Defence Research and Developmental Organization) is given the task to find more about the killings to help India’s defence personnel. She has a troubled past. Her father, who passionately served in the Indian defence forces, got killed under mysterious circumstances when she was a child.
Pam takes the help of the veteran intelligence officer Mark whose company works jointly with the DRDO. She had had a past with him, about which she is not proud.
Simultaneously, The Vault Of Vishnu also traces the centuries old journey of a Chinese Buddhist monk to India in search of something extremely valuable.
The Vault Of Vishnu is also about the ex-defence officer Dr Raja Rao, who is in his 90s, and his daughter Anu.
The synopsis might indicate that the book is a fast-paced action thriller but it’s not. Of course, it tells the story of India’s border issues with China. But it uses a nuanced storytelling method with attention to details.
However, this doesn’t mean that it’s not a page-turner. Sanghi, in his usual manner, has narrated an interesting tale in his usual gripping manner by giving proper space to every sub-plot. Those who are used to reading the author’s books will find the narrative extremely friendly.
Although the parallel story of the Chinese monk’s travel is way different than the present day tale about Pam, it doesn’t appear that way. This part also generates interest as you get absorbed in the monk’s journey. It is only in some parts in the pre-climax that it appears a bit stretched, especially the inclusion of too much of information about the monk’s travel.
This part of the story gets you spellbound by Sanghi’s vast knowledge about history and mythology and his enormous research skills, which includes even the smallest of details.
The author’s rich language not only explains the tale in a simple manner but it also gets you hooked. This is also something Sanghi is used to doing.
A large part of your satisfaction with The Vault Of Vishnu comes with a major twist in the end that you didn’t see coming. Although it appears filmi, it still gives you a pleasant jolt.
Bhoot Bhavish Bartaman, the book by author Mehool Parekh, is the latest murder mystery cum detective fictional novel to have come out on Indian book shelves.
Over the years or decades we have been exposed to murder mysteries in various mediums like books, movies, short stories, plays, etc. Hence, a story in this genre needs to be completely convincing in today’s times because of this much exposure.
This
holds true for me all the more since I have feasted on plenty of
James Hadley Chase novels and read all of Satyajit Ray’s Feluda
stories in the past. So, how much impact did debutant author Mehool
Parekh’s quirkyly titled Bhoot Bhavish Bartaman have on me?
Let’s first find out what it is about.
This
is the story of the army man cum detective Bartaman Bhowmick aka
Batty, who lives in Pune. He teams up with his female friend Robin to
solve criminal cases. They spring into action as soon as they come to
know about the gruesome murder of the beautiful Rupali Jadhav in her
apartment. She was stabbed as many as 16 times.
The lazy police inspector Lokhande, who doesn’t give a damn about truth, is eager to pin the blame on either Rupali’s husband or servant and close the case in a jiffy. However, Batty and Robin realize that the case isn’t as simple as it looks, much to the frustration of Lokhande.
To come straight to the point, Bhoot Bhavish Bartaman majorly succeeds in keeping you hooked, engaged and interested despite the genre being done to death. This is no mean feat. Of course, it is the basic story that is the most responsible for this. Although you can guess where the story is heading, the finale does take you by surprise. This point alone is enough to make this book worth your time.
An
interesting bit about Bhoot Bhavish Bartaman, which is hardly
seen in most murder mysteries, is that the victim isn’t shown to be
a helpless person who deserves the readers’ sympathy. The author
goes on to the bold path by not shying away from giving grey shades
to the character of Rupali right from the start of the story. The use
of flashback over here is smart which makes the tale more layered.
Parekh’s writing isn’t rich but it is something that the average Indian reader can connect with. He has maintained the balance of being creative but at the same time kept it simple enough for readers from any walk of life to feel comfortable.
Bhoot
Bhavish Bartaman also comes with a common negative point. There
are incidents that are stretched without need. The book should have
ended before 317 pages. Also on a couple of occasions the author has
generalized negative behaviour of males and females which should have
been avoided as it’s unfair.
Overall:Bhoot Bhavish Bartaman is an interesting murder mystery cum
detective saga that leaves you impressed.
The
dark, underbelly of Mumbai has attracted many storytellers and
filmmakers. Generally such crime stories are about the underworld or
some serial killer. As the title of author Jerry Pinto’s novel is
Murder In Mahim, you expect another whodunnit murder mystery.
The story is about Peter, a retired journalist staying near Shivaji Park, who gets to know that his son Sunil might be homosexual. Just as he and his wife Millie are trying to come to terms to it in case it turns out to be true, a gruesome murder takes place inside the toilet of the Matunga Road Railway Station.
Peter
has a habit of accompanying his close friend Inspector Jende in
investigating crimes. He does the same while investigating this
murder too. What looked like another murder turns out to be the
starting point of a mystery that runs deep into the dark, homosexual
world of Mumbai, which we hardly get to notice [The book was written
when Section 377 was not absolved].
The initial portions of the book itself make it ample clear that the novel is much more than a mere murder mystery. The murder and the type of crime explored in the novel stand apart from other stories on crimes in Mumbai. It is real but at the same time surprising enough even for Mumbaikars staying in the city for decades.
Like, how many of us know that gay prostitution is so common in Mumbai and that railway station toilets are known spots for the same? And that there are various unofficial spots in the city where unknown gay men meet up to have a good time? Likewise, Pinto’s geographical knowledge of Mumbai, especially where the story is based, is top-notch too [having stayed in the same locality, I can vouch for that].
The
author’s narrative is the clear winner here as it tackles police’s
role in solving murders, social commentary on homosexuality and the
lives of the underprivileged. He has woven all these aspects
naturally into the narrative with not a single one of them being the
odd-man out. The book also fulfils the criteria of a whodunnit taking
you by surprise with a revelation in the end.
Along with the geography of a city, it is also important to know the type of conversations that would take place over there, irrespective in what language your book is. This is another plus point here as the dialogue between the characters are real, interesting and, at times, amusing. This is seen the most during the conversations during the investigation.
There aren’t major negative points, except slight complication with the plot in some areas. But I have an issue with the title. The murders take place in the toilet of Matunga Road Railway Station, so why is the book named Murder In Mahim? One might argue that the jurisdiction comes under Mahim Police Station [as claimed in the book] but the crime has, nevertheless, happened in Matunga.
Overall:Murder In Mahim is a well-crafted tale of murders that also
makes a strong social statement.
There have been various stories, both in the form of
books and movies, which are inspired from real-life politics. But Lt. Col. K Gopinathan’s
novel The Coup India Missed, is a
rare tale that presents an alternative political India which, at the same time,
is very familiar.
The most striking feature of the book is the
inclusion of characters that are starkly similar to the real names of Indian
politics. This not only comes across as interesting but also exciting for those
who follow Indian politics. The author has given enough hints to easily make
out whom the characters are modelled on.
Here are some of them:
— Baba is an ageing anti-corruption crusader who has brought the biggest anti-corruption movement in India prior to the 2014 general elections.
— Baba’s movement terribly hurts the corruption-laden Rashtriya Heritage Party (RHP) who has been in power in India since long. As per the name, the party always believes in nepotism over merit. The party is headed by an elderly lady. Her son is referred as the young prince whose dream is to be India’s next Prime Minister. His sister is more confident and fiery and her husband is charged in illegal land deals.
— The Maha Bharat Party (MBP) is a Hindu nationalist party. Their leader from Gujarat is considered the ideal Hindu Nationalist and is the Prime Ministerial candidate in the 2014 general elections.
— Likewise, there are mentions of a former Finance Minister from Tamil Nadu who is bespectacled and wears a lungi, a political heavyweight woman from the south and a powerful woman leader from the east.
The story starts with Baba forming his own party
filled with social workers and members of NGOs. Their party Rashtriya
Punarudhaan Sangh (RPS), also known as the common man’s party, surprises everyone
by its performance in the 2014 elections. However, their performance also
ensures a hung house with nobody gaining enough numbers to form government at
the centre.
After a lot of thinking and deliberation, RPS takes outside
support from RHP despite its history of corruption and forms government at the
centre. However, they lack a single candidate who could be the PM of India.
Finally, after rounds of debate among the party, the eccentric
professor-cum-politician Krishna Murthy is brought into the party and
straightaway made the PM.
Gopinathan has smartly created a fictional plot based on real political happenings. The similarities, which are also seen in the plot developments, also get you in splits at times (not in a bad way). His knowledge about the socio-political situation in India and world politics is proved from how realistic the tale appears despite it showing an imaginary India.
Out of all the imaginary happenings, some appear over-ambitious. One thing you feel like questioning the most is the borderline Right Wing ideologies of Murthy and Baba’s party. Among other aspects, this is felt the most in Sanatana Dharma being adopted as India’s national belief and the clothes of the lawyers and judges being changed from black to orange.
But the actual negative point of The Coup India Missed is that the last
40 odd pages appear like content from a school or college textbook instead of a
novel. This part provides too much of information with little storytelling.
Overall: Gopinathan’s The Coup India Missed is an interesting take on what should have happened in India from 2014 onwards.
