About the Book: The Solitude of Emperors
We do not know what to do with one of our most precious resources, solitude, and
so we fill it up with noise and clutter...
Suffocating in the small-town world of his parents, Vijay is desperate to escape
to the raw energy of Bombay in the early 1990s. His big chance arrives
unexpectedly when the family servant, Raju, is recruited by a right-wing
organization. As a result of an article he writes about the increasing power of
sectarian politicians, Vijay gets a job in a small Bombay publication, The
Indian Secularist. There he meets Rustom Sorabjee-the inspirational founder of
the magazine