Reportage
By Sudeep Chakravarti
Chakravarti extends the narrative of Fallen City up to the tumultuous time of the 1980s—the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the victory of Indira Gandhi, the anarchic behaviour of Sanjay Gandhi, the ‘unquestioned heir apparent to India-is-Indira-Indira-is-India’, the death of Sanjay Gandhi, Operation Blue Star (entry of the army into the Golden Temple at the orders of Indira Gandhi) and the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Fallen City ends with the subsequent anti-Sikh riots of 1984.
Reviewed by: Payal Nagpal