Aleph Book Company The Solitude Of Emperors [Paperback] David Davidar - Softcover

David Davidar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9382277951 ISBN 13: 9789382277958

Publisher: Aleph Book Company, 2013

Synopsis

‘we do not know what to do with one of our most precious resources, solitude, and so we fill it up with noise and clutter...’ suffocating in the small-town world of his parents, vijay is desperate to escape to the raw energy of bombay in the early 1990s. His big chance arrives unexpectedly when the family servant, raju, is recruited by a right-wing organization. As a result of an article he writes about the increasing power of sectarian politicians, vijay gets a job in a small bombay publication, the indian secularist. There he meets rustom sorabjee—the inspirational founder of the magazine who opens vijay’s eyes to the damage caused to the nation by the mixing of religion and politics. A year after his arrival in bombay, vijay is caught up in violent riots that rip through the city, a reflection of the upsurge of fundamentalism everywhere in the country. He is sent to a small tea town in the nilgiri mountains to recover, but finds that the unrest in the rest of india has touch

About this edition

• Publisher: Aleph Book Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9382277951
• ISBN 13: 9789382277958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296