About the Book: Between the Assassinations
Fiction at its most ambitious and incisive - The Telegraph Kittur, on Indias
south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, is a small, undistinguished
everytown. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the train station finds
himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a Dalit bookseller is arrested for
selling a copy of The Satanic Verses; a rich, spoiled, half-caste student
decides to explode a bomb in college; a sexologist has to find a cure for a
young boy with a mysterious disease that may be AIDS. Across class, religion,
occupation and preoccupation, Kittur is mapped through the beauty of the rural,
coastal south.