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Angad Khanna a teenage middle class boy from a family of Hindus and Sikhs was madly in love with Delhi the only city he knew as home or homeland a city he passionately loved with the fervour of a devout He was imbibing the elixir of life discovering the little joys that growing up brings along-of the first love the surreptitious initiation into sex the first drink in the company of a childhood friend when disaster struck It was the Orwellian year 1984 also Angad?s sixteenth year It was time to learn new lessons of hate and bloodletting of compassion and bravery of despair and death of hope and optimism Living as a refugee for fourteen turbulent days in his own city he found that luck and time were on his side He returned Home unlike his father Iqbal who as a sixteen year old had fled his home in Rawalpindi dictated by destiny to seek a new Home and HomelandDilliz Boyz has cameo descriptions of Delhi-the real metropolis- warts and all its psyche and social fabric woven into the main story line in a beautifully knit seamless pattern A malice-free tongue-in-cheek comment on Delhi and Delhiwallahs interspersed with the grave and sombre description of the 1984 riots and the all-pervasive goodness in man that effectively thwarts evil forces and defeats their malicious design and intent through compassion and common sense A triumph of good over evil 159 pp.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. There is a plethora of literature coming into the market each day. Unfortunately, most of these books do not take a close look at the events that have a substantial impact upon society and the socio-economic aspects of the country at large. "Mandal Diaries" can be called an aberration in this respect, as it delves into contemporary and recent incidents. These incidents have been interwoven with fictional characters in a story frame, which have the potential of being emblazoned on the pages. The history of Indian politics during the 1980s fascinatingly unwinds before the reader as a similar socio-political scenario has replayed itself in the not so recent past. "Mandal Diaries" is a Part of a trilogy, after "Dilliz Boyz", and expounds upon the momentous events that rocked Delhi nearly four decades ago.