: Upamanyu Chatterjee asks in his new novel what villainy is, and offers uncomfortable answers #IndiaNEWS Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new novel Villainy opens with an unidentified body in the park, eponymously

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Upamanyu Chatterjee asks in his new novel what villainy is, and offers uncomfortable answers #IndiaNEWS
Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new novel Villainy opens with an unidentified body in the park, eponymously lending itself to the title of an eyeball-grabbing first chapter. What could have been a nod to the self-contained, hermetically sealed spaces of Agatha Christie’s many bodies in libraries and manors and quaint country houses, is instead the raucous chaos of a quintessentially Delhi RWA park. The body lies there, Bata sneakers and khaki trousers sticking out under hibiscus bushes, calling attention to itself, disrupting the morning perambulations of a genteel middle class that is first fascinated with a potential murder in their dull as proverbial ditch water lives, and then repelled by the humdrumness of the probability of it being a death by natural causes: “death by natural causes was really no fun at all.�? No one wants to take responsibility for calling the police. No one wants to be “involved�?. It is left to the chowkidar-caretaker at the park to stand guard, to stand in proxy for his middle class employers who would rather not sully their hands or their pristine, post-walk / yoga / laughter therapy mornings with the rude irritant of an unidentified dead body. And right there, sneaking in, much like an unsavoury smell,...Read more

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