Published : Mar 31, 2023 13:26 IST - 10 MINS READ In his debut novel The Alice Project, Satwik Gade takes the all-too-familiar genre of the coming-of-age novel and infuses it with humour, philosophical meditations, and observations on life’s inane absurdities, making the book a refreshing read. So the name Alice—I just like the idea of having a character have …
The cover of The Alice Project presents Delhi’s bylanes in the winter sunshine: a man is smoking a cigarette, a woman on the first floor is dropping a bag attached to a rope for the vegetable vendor to fill, an auto manoeuvres through the street, a cat walks towards a pair of pigeons, and people swaddled in winter clothes go …