: ‘Manjhi’s Mayhem’: A tightly-spun racy crime novel that has you rooting for a murderous anti-hero #IndiaNEWS “None of this happened in English. It couldn’t have. English is not the language

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‘Manjhi’s Mayhem’: A tightly-spun racy crime novel that has you rooting for a murderous anti-hero #IndiaNEWS
“None of this happened in English. It couldn’t have. English is not the language in which life runs for most people in this country. It all happened in a mix of Hindi and Marathi.�How can anyone resist these opening lines? Barely any stories in India take place in English, especially not those about a wayward security guard who deals in blows, punches, and blackmail late into the night after finishing his shift at a posh Bombay café where he works. Sewaram Manjhi – Harish Jakhar at the café (a fake Aadhar Card has turned him into a Jatt from a Dalit) – is no stranger to English. After all he welcomes many customers who spend many leisurely hours at the café drinking unpronounceable varieties of coffee, typing away on their laptops, and conversing in this quirky language. He knows that this language is the ticket to a life that he sees so closely every day but will never be within his reach. A nobody from Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, Manjhi arrives at the shores of Bombay to start anew following serious troubles of him being “burnt alive� in his village (he tells us there’s no time for this story). Clearly at the bottom of the...Read more

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