Ajaya: Roll of the Dice, by Anand Neelkanthan
A screed and a rant, but not a book or a story.
This is a book written with the sole purpose of inciting outrage, and therefore, publicity, and therefore sales.
Is this an alternate retelling of the Mahabharat? No. It reads more like the outpouring of a mind that sees discrimination everywhere and consequently projects it on to the characters in his book. The molester of a woman, the instigator, the one who cheered are the heroes and protagonists. Tells something, tells all, doesn’t it, and then some more, about the book and its author?
