In the ever-growing dystopian world of deceit, lying and corruption, novels poignantly portray politics seemingly squinted towards organized hypocrisy. Curiously, people yearn to know everything that simultaneously conjures awe and disdain, which is what politics produces. It precisely articulates the unprecedented popularity of non-fiction books and political novels. The political novel, modelled on historical and social fiction, creates a masterful evocation of the grim and traumatic political landscape that jeopardizes human rights and diminishes faith in the system.
Political projections or efforts to politicalize literature through characters with a didactic purpose or diabolic personal interest cannot be taken as political novels. It is not very reassuring to learn that the political novels churned out frequently in India produce a narrative in which political ideas, rivalries, jealousies, unbridled ambition and events dominate. Seldom does any political novel locate consequential movement, events with far-reaching consequences, in the tantalizing fluctuations of human failings and triumphs.