: ‘The Wall’ can be read as a continuation in fiction of Gautam Bhatia’s work on freedom and equality #IndiaNEWS Realism is dead. The times in which we live, audacious as they are, drove the final

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‘The Wall’ can be read as a continuation in fiction of Gautam Bhatia’s work on freedom and equality #IndiaNEWS
Realism is dead. The times in which we live, audacious as they are, drove the final nail in its coffin.A novel is often compared to a mirror thrown up at society. Still, I have always thought of it, as James Wood says, as “an attentive host??? always catering to the guests’ needs; in the process, a novel can “begin to sound like its guests.??? There was a time – in what seems like another life – when we experienced the world first-hand. People touched, communicated face-to-face, explored their surroundings by being physically present. After 180+ days spent within four walls, seeing the outside world through the camera lens of television news and Instagram stories, our new reality is that we are boxed in. And, with no end in sight, our future looks increasingly isolated with little room for an experiential life. In that context, The Wall, Gautam Bhatia’s ambitious debut speculative fiction novel, is the new realism. The story so farThe Wall is set in an unknown world, in a city called Sumer, enclosed by an unscalable wall for centuries. Nothing penetrates the enclosure – neither people nor ideas. Controlled by martial law imposed by a group called Shoortans (the word for warriors in Punjabi), the city lumbers...Read more

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