Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor paperback George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has “never gone away”

It's like having a mate in the kitchen guiding you through

The book is a brilliant interweaving of memories (though this is emphatically not a memoir) and engrossing social and historical narrative

Without it

Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor paperback George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four hasThis is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill New Delhi, 3 a. m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold.