Vikram Chandra writes an epic tale
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Vikram Chandra's new novel is 900 pages long and touches on the riches and the squalor of moden life in India.
MPR Photo/Euan Kerr
He's created an epic tale set against the splendor and the squalor of modern Bombay.
It involves a lowly police officer and a hugely successful gang boss. While their stories are intertwined, Chandra told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr that neither of them really knows it.
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