Siddhartha Deb
Author
Language
English
Description
Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after leaving home, he returned as an undercover reporter for The Guardian, working at a call center in Delhi in 2004, a time when globalization was fast proceeding and Thomas L. Friedman declared the world flat. Deb's experience interviewing the call-center staff led him to undertake this book and...
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Delhi, the near future: a former journalist goes in search of answers after she finds herself stripped of identity and citizenship and thrust into a vast conspiracy involving secret detention centers, government sanctioned murders, online rage, nationalist violence, and a figure of shifting identifies known as the New Delhi Monkey Man. Bhopal, 1984: an assassin hunts a whistleblower through a central Indian city that will shortly be the site of the...