A young man’s troubled existence mirrors wider social and political turmoil, in this epic yet intimate debut
hree quarters of a century have passed since India’s independence. Now, midnight’s great-grandchildren face a country fractured mentally as much as socially: half democracy, half westernised, half madhouse, half global superpower, where gurus, imams and gyrating TikTok stars vie for the hearts, souls and wallets of hundreds of millions. “You know, the problem with this country is that we believe money will solve everything.
follows his attempts to outrun the mental and societal forces haunting him, as he moves from the socially conservative northern city of Lucknow to find life and freedom in the cosmopolitan, hard-drinking, dope-smoking, anything-goes fantasyland of mid-2000s Mumbai. The novel is epic in scope and yet composed of intimate moments, with the sinuous double timeline exploring how the Shubhankar of the 2000s, yearning for freedom beyond the horizons imposed by his parents, becomes the burnt-out, semi-invalid dependant of 2013, victim of a mob attack and a subsequent mental breakdown. Even after the attack, he and his parents play their allotted roles, “angry parent and indignant son”. “Upbringing is all about strictness and discipline.
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