About the Book: Jimmy The Terrorist
In Moazzamabad, UP, too large to be a town and too backward to be a city, a
young man stabs a police inspector and is beaten to death. The last words he
speaks are, My name is Jimmy the Terrorist. Journalists descend upon the town
like shrill birds, and a long-time resident decides to tell a story that none of
them will know.
Jimmy was once Jamaal, son of Rafiq Ansari of Rasoolpur Mohalla, a Muslim
neighbourhood in a Hindu town. and his story goes back a long way: to the time
when Moazzamabad was named, after Aurangzebs son;