T.K. Mahadevan is a wide spectrum writer/editor/broadcaster of long standing. He wrote this novel – his second – when he was 28 years old. Like everything that he has written over these many years, it is brazenly original and un-inhibited. No reader, howsoever sophisticated, will find it easy to ward off its calculated assault on his set ideas and emotions. Its deliberately syncopated style is off a piece with the author’s known penchant for innovation in ...