Keertigan is Chandan Pandey’s second instalment in a promised trilogy of novels focusing on questions of violence, disappearances and truth in the Hindi heartland. Amitava Kumar best summarizes this novelistic impulse in his endorsement of the trilogy’s first novel Vaidhanik Galp (translated into English as Legal Fiction), calling it ‘an urgent, literary report about how truth goes missing in our land’.
October 2023, volume 47, No 10