Death of a Moneylender
Author | : Kota Neelima |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2016-05-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789386057303 |
ISBN-13 | : 9386057301 |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Download or read book Death of a Moneylender written by Kota Neelima and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falak, a young journalist from Delhi, is assigned to a remote village in south-central India where a moneylender is found dead, hung from a lamppost in front of his house by an entire village united against injustice. Falak coldly hunts the story for a page one byline, unconcerned with corrective conscience, an attitude that cost him his relationship with Vani, a rival newspaper journalist. Within hours of reaching the village, his story is ready; a villainous moneylender killed by long-suffering villagers. But Falak has also unearths a disconcerting fact, that the moneylender was a kind-hearted, generous man whose death was being used to intimidate other moneylenders. Outstanding loans are written off to buy peace with villagers, but the politically well-connected and dangerous moneylenders plan a brutal retribution.