![]() She doesnt grumble, just accepts her fate. Then there is Dimple, castrated and dumped in a brothel at a ridiculously young age. One such character is Rashid, drug dealer and pimp, yet still very much a human being. The protagonist remains elusive and anonymous as he introduces you to the characters that inhabit the dens, cages and brothels of the red-light district of this pulsating city. ![]() This opening stream of consciousness mesmerises and intrigues with its dream-like sensation of narcotic induced wanderings. Fluid and fluent it seeps into your mind, drawing you right into the heart of a Bombay opium den, circa 1970. ![]() Incipient writers are taught to grab and hold the reader in the opening sentence. ![]() Narcopolis is short-listed for the Man Booker Prize ![]()
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