Prayaag Akbar’s new novel, Mother India, plunges into pressing, contemporary matters
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Prayaag Akbar’s new novel, Mother India, plunges into pressing, contemporary matters

The Hindu  

Prayaag Akbar remembers reading about an actress whose photograph was photoshopped and used, without her knowledge, on an online platform. “She was completely clueless about it until the media started reporting it,” says the Goa-based writer, who was in Bengaluru to launch his latest novel, Mother India. “ Second novel Mother India,which unfurls in alternating narratives, diving in and out of the worlds of Mayank, a right-wing content creator and Nisha, a sales assistant, is Akbar’s second. “A lot of the story came from there,” says Akbar, who also cruised through YouTube’s darker recesses to unearth right-wing political commentary. “It’s a city that obviously is very dear to me,” says Akbar, adding, however, that it also mystified him.

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'Mother India' book review: Refuses to get preachy; keeps things at surface level, even upbeat
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