{"id":691,"date":"2022-09-13T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwpj.org\/?p=691"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:42:20","slug":"six-suspects-by-vikasswarup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Six Suspects by VikasSwarup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cwpj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-685\" src=\"http:\/\/cwpj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image008-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"image008\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image008-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image008.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a shortage of crime fiction set in the capital of India and this book by VikasSwarup can be said to be a pioneer in this arena. The book tries tries to expose the contract killing &amp; fraud that goes in the vicinity of Delhi. The story is based on the murder of Jessica Lall(a model) in a bar in 1999. In the book, the victim is Ruby Gill who is a Gandhian scholar &amp; bartender who is shot dead after refusing to serve a notorious industrialist and a producer of movies.<\/p>\n<p>VivekRai has already been acquitted for running over pavement dwellers and also killed endangered blackbuck antelope. His father, who is a corrupt home minister of Uttar Pradesh always saves him and this time also he is acquitted of Ruby\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p>However, when he is celebrating his acquittal, he is killed. Six guests are found with guns and they become the suspects and are arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Besides being the murder mystery, the book also highlights the disparities that define the Indian Society. It shows the corruption that burdens the Indian bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, there is an unexpected revelation of the mystery surrounding the murder.<\/p>\n<p>Urvi M. Dani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a shortage of crime fiction set in the capital of India and this book by VikasSwarup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}