
Antyesti for a dead Ganesa: The acclaimed science fiction novella of a future Bombay by India's visionary author (Indian Gothic)
Release Date: Monday, May 12th, 2025
Published by: Mea Kalpa; 1st edition
Pages: 104 pages
In a toxic future Mumbai, resurrected Inspector Neel Kant investigates the murder of a cloned god, uncovering a conspiracy that challenges his beliefs and the corrupt system he must navigate.
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He died for his beliefs. They brought him back to serve theirs.
In a future Mumbai reeking of toxic air and caste memory, Inspector Neel Kant is resurrected from deadsleep—his body borrowed, his past erased—to investigate an impossible crime: the brutal murder of a cloned god.
On Chowpatty Beach lies the mutilated corpse of Ganesa—flesh and blood, tusked and divine. Not a statue. Not a myth. A living, breathing clone made from ancient DNA… and someone butchered him.
As Neel unravels the mystery behind the murdered deity, he is pulled into a subterranean conspiracy involving illicit god-cloning, forbidden quantum biology, and a caste-stratified society that worships progress but has forgotten compassion. Hunted by drones, shadowed by AI, and haunted by his own past, Neel must decide whether to serve the corrupt system that killed him—or burn it down.
In a future Mumbai reeking of toxic air and caste memory, Inspector Neel Kant is resurrected from deadsleep—his body borrowed, his past erased—to investigate an impossible crime: the brutal murder of a cloned god.
On Chowpatty Beach lies the mutilated corpse of Ganesa—flesh and blood, tusked and divine. Not a statue. Not a myth. A living, breathing clone made from ancient DNA… and someone butchered him.
As Neel unravels the mystery behind the murdered deity, he is pulled into a subterranean conspiracy involving illicit god-cloning, forbidden quantum biology, and a caste-stratified society that worships progress but has forgotten compassion. Hunted by drones, shadowed by AI, and haunted by his own past, Neel must decide whether to serve the corrupt system that killed him—or burn it down.