The opening of Deepti Kapoor’s Age of Vice is written as dispassionately as a news report. It tells the story of five pavement dwellers killed by a speeding Mercedes in the early hours of a winter morning; the arrival of police personnel who note that the driver slumped at the wheel of the expensive vehicle and reeking of whisky is …
Published : Mar 09, 2023 10:40 IST A car accident, perhaps the central flashpoint of this story, introduces us to Age Of Vice. In this soaring novel by Deepti Kapoor, the action never stops—a raucous and turbulent crime thriller that dissects the moral decay of the ultra-elite of India of the 2000s. Age of Vice Deepti Kapoor Juggernaut Books Pages: …
Deepti Kapoor confidently captures Delhi’s circle of power in Age of Vice — the maddening play of sin, envy, corruption and pride — but she also effectively chronicles India’s contemporary socio-economic landscape. The characters are a tad familiar though, from a naive boy from India’s small town to a crime family’s aesthete son. “A turning point for me was the …
When Deepti Kapoor was done hammering out the final draft of her first novel, A Bad Character, she found it much easier to look to the US and UK— the two countries which exert the greatest literary influence on the rest of the world — in order to get published. Prayaag’s route to getting published in the UK was through …
