Black Hole is ready

 Finally I have completed the novel which I started writing more than half a decade back. Black Hole. It's a short novel of about 35,000 words in 6 chapters. The protagonist is Ishan Salman Panicker whose father is a Malayali Hindu and mother a Khasi Catholic from Shillong. His maternal grandfather is a Muslim from Bangladesh. 

Reverend Father Joseph Kunnel prophesies a dark future for Ishan. Ishan escapes from the priest and his prophecies and arrives in Delhi with his wife Jenny. Delhi turns out to be a twirling black hole which drives Ishan to write his own gospel. "In the beginning was a black hole," the gospel goes. "The black hole was with God, and the black hole was God."

This novel is, short as it is, a complex work that probes the inevitable mystique and horror of life. The plot spans a whole century. Saints and sinners, Gandhi and Godse, Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and a whole range of ordinary people come together to continue the evolution of a 14-billion-year old black hole.  

The e-book is available at Amazon India. The print version will take some time. I'll be thrilled if you all order a copy each of the book, read it, and possibly review it. 

I take this opportunity to thank Nishant Thakur for the cover design. Nishant designed the cover of the print version of my memoir, Autumn Shadows.