: This debut novel examines power and privilge in Delhi society with an unforgiving eye #IndiaNEWS Waiting outside the lawyer’s office for interminable hours was difficult for Aahan. He was born with

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This debut novel examines power and privilge in Delhi society with an unforgiving eye #IndiaNEWS
Waiting outside the lawyer’s office for interminable hours was difficult for Aahan. He was born with a place in this world, as the scion of the Sikand family, and took having to wait anywhere, or indeed any delay or inconvenience, however minor or justified objectively, as a personal affront, a marker of his diminished status. If that wasn’t bad enough, Parul insisted on accompanying him to every meeting and hearing. After all, it was through her uncle’s connections that the lawyer was giving them his time, this reduced fee, the commitment that he would actually show up when the case was listed. This gave her a sense of entitlement to comment nonstop about what should be done, could have been done, and wasn’t being done. The factory was in a mess, there were labour problems, and there was the whole larger Nooriya problem to tackle. The lawyer who he was consulting was a school acquaintance too – one who he wouldn’t have deigned to acknowledge in the school yard, possibly even bullied, and certainly never invited to his parties – and Parul’s Mausaji’s intervention was needed to ensure that he met them quickly. And now, here he was, hoping that the learned...Read more

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