Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara [in Library Journal]
13 Jan, by in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Indian, Repost, South Asian
Life in India’s basti (slums) has rules all its own – about toilets, water, hierarchies, privileges. The police either ignore the inhabitants, making crime reporting meaningless, or threaten to raze their ramshackle homes. Meanwhile, some 180 children go missing in India every day, reports British-based...