Books
Widows of Vidarbha | Making of Shadows
Farmer suicides are the most brutal and unforgiving indictment of the neglect of agriculture by the state and the politics, obsessed with power and the market. The continuing farm crisis represents not only failure of economic and development models but also collapse of the democratic s...
The Honest Season
When Sikander Bansi, a political heir tapes six controversial issues involving the Cabinet Ministers and other parties of influence, he is ready to face the consequences, which would not only disturb his political career but would also put the life of Mira Mouli, a noted journalist, at ...
Shoes of the Dead
Shoes of the Dead, the bestseller which narrates life and death battle of a farmer against his inheritance of despair, will soon be a motion picture. 'None of us can match the powers we challenge. It is an unequal fight, but we have the dead on our side.' Crushed by successive...
Death of a Moneylender
Falak, a young newspaper journalist from Delhi, is assigned to a remote village in south-central India where a moneylender is found dead, hung from a lamppost in front of his house by an entire village united against injustice. Falak coldly hunts the story for a page one by-line, uncon...
Riverstones
'How do you, Ari, justify your education, your understanding? But most importantly, how do you justify your lack of ambition to change the way of things around you? What is the point of life, if not this? 'Living with carefully cultivated nonchalance amidst the rough and tumble of...