He is a voice of poor peasants, slum dwellers and exploited class. The novel is lauded for the way in which it deals with “pressing social issues and significant global developments”. The novel is strongly evocative of Benjamin Disraeli’s Sybil or The Two Nations, which is plotted around the existence of two nations, the rich and the poor. The story presents two Indias: the shining new malls, with their squalid counters for service staff; luxurious apartment complexes named Windsor Manor A and Buckingham Towers B, with derelict living quarters for servants in the basement ; the architectural sublime of industralising India juxtaposed with slums; real blonde prostitutes for rich punters and counterfeit blondes for the less privileged- “What
