The Books Blog
The Books Blog is the bookworm's cozy nook, the authors' stage to connect with his or her readers, the critics' space to speak of things which can't be told in the official milieu of reviews.India is in crisis. A corrupt government rules with no clear and credible replacement in sight, the economy is in terminal decline, the people's trust in the political system is at an all-time low and this dire situation is capped by a clash between the civilian and military leadership of India. Sound familiar? The state of the nation, circa 2012, certainly, but also the premise of my last novel, "Delhi Durbar", published two years ago. The book describes how an Indian Army General by the name of Brajesh Dayal tries to wrest power in Delhi, taking advantage of the people's apathy and frustration towards an increasingly dysfunctional and faltering democracy. Espousing the part of a saviour and holy warrior against corruption, General Dayal promises the country freedom from venal politicians and lays out a road to a new, prosperous India in exchange for his being given a free...Read more...
Recent Posts by Krishan Partap Singh
- When fiction comes to life
India is in crisis. A corrupt government rules with no clear and credible replacement in sight, the economy is in terminal decline, the people's trust in the political system
Arundati Dandapani
How I became a print digitisation fanatic!I have spent the past few months working for a Christian publishing house in the gorgeous old town of Oxford, producing books that illuminate, detail, debate, commodify, beautify, question
Manu Bhagavan
A response to Perry Anderson's essay on Partition in The London Review of BooksI recently read with significant concern Perry Anderson's essay on Partition of the Indian subcontinent (The London Review of Books, 19 July 2012), hyperlinked below. While Anderson is a
Amrita Tripathi
From the Land of the Thunder DragonMountain Echoes has kicked off to a promising start here in Thimphu, Bhutan. There's usually only so much you can say about a literary festival, but here's one whose
Krishan Partap Singh
When fiction comes to life India is in crisis. A corrupt government rules with no clear and credible replacement in sight, the economy is in terminal decline, the people's trust in the political system
Rakhshanda Jalil
Javed Akhtar: talking cinema, songs and the state of UrduThe Hindi film industry and its sorority of regional-language sister industries in the sub-continent has elevated the song-and-dance sequence to a rare art form. Inspired partly by
Ursula James
Of my India visit and the powers of the moonIt is my first visit to India in 20 years, and as I wonder at the extraordinary changes which have taken place here, I also reflect on what a
