A Review of ‘Manan’ in TBLM, by Mihir Vatsa

To Start With,


He closes his eyes and finds today’s date floating towards him. Shimmering in the darkness, swiveling— like the text on the Windows 95 screensaver. It seeps in through his forehead and gets absorbed. 23-04-98 is now a part of him. Today’s date, a Saturday, when the first sign of what he so eagerly awaited has appeared. The day, while bathing, he has noticed a hair on his balls, and all his life’s problems are in the past.
Thus begins Mohit Parikh’s debut novel, Manan, which tells...