Delhi Noir

The legendary city of Delhi, India, provides fertile ground for tales of darkness and despair, featuring brand-new stories by: Irwin Allan Sealy, Omair Ahmad, Radhika Jha, Ruchir Joshi, Meera Nair, Siddharth Chowdhury,Tabish Khair, Uday Prakash, and others.Delhi Noir offers bone-chilling, mesmerizing takes on the country's chaotic capital, a city where opulence and poverty are constantly clashing, where old-world values and the information age wage a constant battle.These fifteen original stories are written by the best Indian writers alive today—they are veteran authors who have appeared on the Booker Prize short list and budding geniuses who your grandchildren will read about in English class. Delhi Noir is a world of sex in parks, male prostitution, and vigilante rickshaw drivers. It is one plagued by religious riots, soulless corporate dons, and murderous servants. This is India uncut . . .