aatish taseer
picador,
296 pages, rs 495
In this recognisably ‘Delhi novel,’ a young man returns home to the city after several years abroad and resumes his place among the city’s cosmopolitan elite—a world of fashion designers, media moguls and the idle rich. Everything around him appears unchanged until he meets Aakash, a charismatic and unpredictable young man on the make, who introduces him to the squalid underside of this sprawling city.
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