Engglishhh Fictional Dispatches from a Hyperreal Nation

01 September, 2014

Altaf Tyrewala

HarperCollins India

240 pages, Rs.450

This humorous and insightful anthology features a love poem in Engglishhh©, a new language that has numerology as its guiding principle; a tale about Arnold MmYum, who leaves his bench outside a popular eatery to discover the city of animate beings; a story on a purveyor and director of cinematic porn; and an account of a watchman who counts the seconds to death. Tyrewala has an uncanny ability to capture the streets and mindscapes of Mumbai, the city he first captured in prose as nobody else had in No God in Sight, and more recently in verse in Ministry of Hurt Sentiments.