Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

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Many of them were working, or weren’t able to study, because of their difficult financial or domestic circumstances. We believe djinns moved into this palace around the time our las kings died, their hearts broken by the crooked victories of white men who claimed to be our rulers. More often than not, however, Anappara will leave it to the reader to connect the dots, to decipher, and draw out meaning. It’s also a world where spaces stretch and shrink, superimpose and segment (“The good and bad thing about living in a basti is that news flies into your ears whether you want it to or not”) and one which is described through a limited and limitless lexicon.

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In many ways he is an unremarkable boy: he watches reality cop shows on TV, attends the overcrowded government school, and tries to stay out of trouble. Jai is an utterly convincing voice, a lively, cheerful, cheeky boy yet through his eyes Anappara skilfully reveals the harsh reality beneath; the police corruption and stark inequality in a country where 180 children are said to go missing each day.The children at the heart of this story will stay with you long after you turn the last page… a wonderful debut. It is jubilantly and astutely written, bursting with compassion for its characters and a sense of vivid adventure, at once both childlike and wise.

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He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants, and together they draw up lists of people to interview and places to visit. only accentuates the seriousness of her subject: the disappearance of children from villages in India, a real-life issue give intimate treatment here. When 16-year-old Aanchal disappears, the men and women of the basti don't offer her the same compassion as they do the prepubescent abductees. With the children in Djinn Patrol losing their lives due to a lack of interest on the part of the police due to the economic status of the complainants, Anappara’s fiction holds up a rather stark mirror to the treatment meted out to the common man in India, who is forced to fight his own battles.

Anappara wrote the novel while pursuing a master's degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Later, the Hindu Samaj Party states that since the missing children are only Hindu, it must be the Muslims who have kidnapped them. But Omvir himself had seen it as a source of strength, much like the two thumbs Hrithik Roshan had on his right hand. Our gods are too busy to hear our prayers, but ghosts - ghosts have nothing to do but wait and wander, wander and wait, and they are always listening to our words because they are bored and that‘s one way to pass the time.

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And how long did it take for you to feel you had the voice of the characters, particularly nine-year-old Jai? His exuberance for life is juxtaposed with a world that is hell-bent on stamping out his innocence at every turn. Her work has won several awards for journalism, including the Developing Asia Journalism Awards, the "Every Human has Rights" Media Awards, as well as the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism. The bad characters can feel like caricatures; at moments, Jai’s voice isn’t convincing as that of a child.The language, playful and light in its child’s point of view, is held in constant tension: as the young detectives come to terms with grief and bereavement, darker political and social forces, like the ever-present smog that makes ‘shadows sprawl’ and looks ‘like the devil’s own breath’, threaten to engulf their lives.