POWERFUL COMIC THRILLER

MY FANTASTIC E-LIBRARY 

Some years ago I read an interesting article in The Assam Tribune (in its Sunday magazine, I think) and I sent an e-mail to the writer praising him for his interesting article. (The email ID of the writer was given at the end of his interesting article. I am quite aware that the writer may have been a she using a male pen name.) I also informed him that he might read My online posts. Soon after, he sent Me an inspiring e-mail to say that each piece I wrote was like an e-book and the vast number of My online posts was like an e-library!

I welcome all big and small Indian and foreign publishers of books and magazines to publish any number of My online posts they want to publish (and translations commissioned by the publishers) WITHOUT HAVING TO PAY ME ANYTHING because I would be glad to make all publishers, book sellers, librarians, and readers happy. 

I don't mind being the personification of imaginary "David Foster Wallace". 

Cf. David Foster Wallace Symposium (1:01:08)/The University of Texas at Austin (YouTube), Editors on Wallace (1:01:03)/The University of Texas at Austin (YouYube) and other videos on the lovable eccentric (imaginary) writer David Foster Wallace that are available on YouTube.

Kishalay Sinha [G] April 6, 2020 

A NAZI 

"Renuka" is a Nazi working on behalf of Satan/Shokoonee/"Arnab".

Kishalay Sinha [G] 

BLACK MONEY IN SWISS BANKS 

Not a single paisa has been brought back from the vast amount of Indian cheats' black money hidden in Swiss banks. 

Kishalay Sinha [G]  

POWERFUL COMIC THRILLER 

"THE COUNTRY IS GOING TO THE DOGS", by Anurag Mathur, published by RUPA (168 pages, in paperback, ₹195), is a powerful comical mystery thriller involving Radhey Radhey/RR and John, Kristoff, Miss Fifoo, who run an international sex and drugs racket, written in a hilarious style. It is a terrific thriller, stylishly written. I regard Anurag Mathur as the equal of great humorists Charles Dickens, Stephen Leacock, James Thurber, P.G. Wodehouse. (I wonder if it is a ghost-written novel attributed to a real or fictional male author.)

I have all the three humorous novels by Anurag Mathur published so far: "THE INSCRUTABLE AMERICANS" (the naive hero of the novel, Gopal, who has gone to America to study at an American university, seems to be a parody of Me), published by RUPA, I think (it must be on a bookshelf in My personal library, and I will have to check the name of the publisher); "THE COUNTRY IS GOING TO THE DOGS", published by RUPA (₹195); MAKING THE MINISTER SMILE, published by PENGUIN BOOKS (₹250); "उफ़फ़ ! ये अमरीकी" (Hindi translation of "THE INSCRUTABLE AMERICANS" translated by शिवानी खरे), published by PENGUIN BOOKS (price not given or legible; I got it from Flipkart).

 

Description of the novel on the cover of "THE COUNTRY IS GOING TO THE DOGS":

'YOU ARE SURELY AWARE THAT THE FAMOUS FILM STAR, MISS FIFOO, IS ONE OF OUR MOST FAMOUS OLD STUDENTS.' [...] 'OF COURSE, OF COURSE,' RR REASSURED HER. [...] THE PRINCIPAL NODDED. 'WELL,' SHE THEN SAID GRIMLY, 'SHE'S DISAPPEARED.'

Sitting by the window, watching the girls of All Saints College walk past, Radhey Radhey has nothing much to look forward to in his boring retiree's life until Miss Fifoo, 'the sizzling sex siren of sin city', goes missing.

With the help of his very resourceful friend Anwar, ageing RR turns into an enthusiastic amateur detective and plunges headlong into the murky underworld of Delhi. On this dangerously exciting mission, which takes him to gay bashes and wife-swapping parties, he encounters shady characters such as the Poetic Pimp, who is fond of quoting English poetry; and the malicious Don, who owns every badass in town; as well as the Guru of the Hijras.

In this boisterous thriller, The Country Is Going to the Dogs, join the over-sexed retired accountant, RR, on a wild ride as he dives into the sexual underbelly of Delhi.

Excerpt: 

'Chee, chee, chee,' lamented Radhey Radhey Kumar, seventy-four years old. 'The nation has gone to the dogs.' He was critical once again, as he was nearly every day, of the younger specimen of the female species his eyes fell on, as he gazed out of his office window at the All Saints Women's College, just across the road.

'Such tight, tight jeans,' he criticized. So tight, that if he looked hard enough, he could see the outline of their underwear. 'Not that I would ever look so hard,' he assured himself. 'And such tight T-shirts. Goodness me, they may as well not even wear them. But in my days... ah in my days, women knew how to dress, how to walk, how to talk. But now, it was all sex, sex and nothing else.' Or so he had heard. 'How times have changed,' he sighed.

(From ANURAG MATHUR: "THE COUNTRY IS GOING TO THE DOGS", RUPA, ₹ 195)

Kishalay Sinha [G]