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Amidst the haze of an aimless college life, a young student from Shillong meets the mercurial Naina at a party near Delhi University campus. A spontaneous act of chivalry directed against Naina’s violent ex-lover sparks off intimacy between him and the enigmatic girl-about-town.
But a fleeting affair with her leaves him sceptical about love and its elusive promises. Yet, Naina’s hidden past becomes a phantom that refuses to blur out of his memory. A chance encounter with her and her Afghan cocaine-dealer friend two years later brings her back into his life with all her mystery and caprice intact.
Tracing the circuit of desire, drugs, violence and greed that exists on the fringes of Delhi, Jet City Woman casts fresh light on lives that have so far been peripheral to the grand narrative of this city — students from northeast India, Tibetan and Afghan refugees, Anglo-Indians.
The dotcom boom and its eventual bust are juxtaposed with the pipe dream the BPO industry is peddling in India. Spanning five years and alternating between northeast India and Delhi, this is a story diffused with subtle humour and sharp insights, a tale set in an ancient city where lives are invented anew.
ISBN - 9788129112781
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Pages : 191
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