JAIDEEP VARMA'S 'LOCAL
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"Indialog and The Corner Bookstore are organising a book reading in New Delhi for Local on 28th September at The Corner Bookstore, Connaught Circus at 7 pm. Writers Kavery Nambisan and Vijay Nambisan will be my guests of honour, and it would be great to see you there, if it interests you. There will be a short reading, followed by an interactive session.
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VENUE ADDRESS:
The Corner Bookstore
Northland
N - 17, Connaught Circus
(Outer Circle, Opp - Scindia House)
New Delhi - 01
The Corner Bookstore
Northland
N - 17, Connaught Circus
(Outer Circle, Opp - Scindia House)
New Delhi - 01
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LOCAL - an overview
Twenty-eight-year-old Akash is a new entrant to the city of Mumbai in mid-1996. He has come from Madras after a severe personal setback, to start life anew.
To rid himself of a number of problems – financial, physical and (primarily) emotional, he finds a solution that somehow addresses all of them together. He decides to live within the city's most chaotic, most indispensable institution – the local train.
He plunges himself into his career during the day, but finds the nights giving him a conflicting perspective. During the day, he helps create artificial wants (in a multinational advertising agency) but at night, unconsciously dismantles his own desires (in the train). Globalisation and consumerism are his preoccupations during the day, exactly the opposite in the night. This gradual tussle between an aggressive corporate life and a deliberately passive inner life results in an involuntary transformation within him.
Akash's story is the main narrative in the book, which is punctuated by stand-alone vignettes about people he meets, most of whom are going through some kind of emotional crisis (but away from his gaze).
This format (which can also be seen as stand-alone short stories punctuating a novel; metaphorically acting as stations in a railway journey), besides innovatively contributing to character development, ultimately fleshes out the big picture of the book.
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