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After a bomb blast rips through Sikandar Chowk Park, Allahabad,
killing fifty-seven people, a journalist pieces together the lives
of eleven of the dead from the heap of mutilated bodies. Among them
a self-effacing music teacher who won't go abroad on a fellowship
because of his family of stray dogs; an Anglo-Indian widow coping
with the knowledge of her husband's infidelity thirty-five years
ago; a precocious 'problem' child; a firebrand feminist confronting
the sexual misdemeanours of her friend's husband; and a young dalit
woman who defies her marriage and her society and enters into a
relationship with an unemployed Brahmin boy - all ordinary people
leading ordinary lives in a quintessential mofussil Indian
township. Neelum Saran Gour's vibrant prose conjures up a multitude
of characters involved in a maze of relationships, and the dynamics
of events which propel them to Sikandar Chowk Park on the fateful
day. In the process, she crafts a tale at once poignant and witty
which ingeniously addresses contemporary issues of communal and
caste prejudices, bigotry and faith, forgiveness and redemption.
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