Walls of Delhi

Three stinging, darkly comic tales capture in telling detail life and survival in today s India. In the title story a sweeper discovers a cache of black money and escapes to see the Taj Mahal with his underage mistress; in Mohandas a Dalit races to reclaim his life stolen by an upper-caste identity thief; and in Mangosil a baby s head gets bigger and bigger as he gets smarter and smarter, while his family tries to find a cure. The stories in this collection are a testament to Uday Prakash s extraordinary gift as a storyteller and his original, bold voice.