Habba Gali, a middle-class neighbourhood in Anuja Chauhan’s new novel, The Fast and the Dead, is a sort of mini India. 420pp, ₹499; HarperCollins “The street is dotted plentifully with eye-wateringly colourful and hectically multi-tiered temples, one white-and-green dargah, one Roman Catholic church,” writes Chauhan for good measure. Such arguments among neighbours is only too common in urban India, but …
