Tarun J Tejpal’s book is set in an unnamed world of iron bars, but it is not a prison novel. It is a novel about politics, law, love, society, cops, media and the million mutinies that rage around us. It is a monumental work, an audacious ode to the human spirit.
The long-standing heated exchange between the governor and the TMC government over political issues has caused a constitutional impasse. What lies ahead?