The Walls of Delhi

Three Stories

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  • A
  • street
  • sweeper
  • discovers
  • a
  • cache
  • of
  • black
  • market
  • money
  • and
  • escapes
  • to
  • see
  • the
  • Taj
  • Mahal
  • with
  • his
  • underage
  • mistress;
  • an
  • Untouchable
  • races
  • to
  • reclaim
  • his
  • life
  • that’s
  • been
  • stolen
  • by
  • an
  • upper-caste
  • identity
  • thief;
  • a
  • slum
  • baby’s
  • head
  • gets
  • bigger
  • and
  • bigger
  • as
  • he
  • gets
  • smarter
  • and
  • smarter,
  • while
  • his
  • family
  • tries
  • to
  • find
  • a
  • cure.
  • One
  • of
  • India’s
  • most
  • original
  • and
  • audacious
  • writers,
  • Uday
  • Prakash,
  • weaves
  • three
  • tales
  • of
  • living
  • and
  • surviving
  • in
  • today’s
  • globalized
  • India.
  • In
  • his
  • stories,
  • Prakash
  • portrays
  • realities
  • about
  • caste
  • and
  • class
  • with
  • an
  • authenticity
  • absent
  • in
  • most
  • English-language
  • fiction
  • about
  • South
  • Asia.
  • Sharply
  • political
  • but
  • free
  • of
  • heavy handedness.
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