About the Book: Sakinas Kiss
Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two
insolent young men claiming to have business with his daughter Rekha. He deals
with them shortly, only to find his quiet, middle-class life upended by a
bewildering set of events over the next few days.
Even as Venkat is hurled into a world of street gangs and murky journalism, we
see a parallel narrative unfold of a betrayal and disappearance from long ago.
Could there be a connection? Set over four mostly sleepless days, we see Venkat
lose grasp of the narrative even as he loses grasp