Dedicated police officer, ACP Gautam Dhaliwal, takes it upon himself to root out the MAF, a major Naxal organisation based in the remote village of Bhagatpur, Bihar, as part of the Central Government-backed, Operation India One. However, as his investigations progress, he unmasks the official fa�ade of the modelof development that he had set out to defend. He is shocked to learn about the ugly nexus of unscrupulous politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen feeding off the oppression of the underprivileged. Torn between his commitment to the Indian State and the sympathy he begins to feel for the distressed people of Bhagatpur, an agonised ACP Dhaliwal is forced to rethink his earlierviews on the meaning of an individual�s responsibility towards fellow countrymen.
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General Trade(Adult)
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01-01-2015
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Shiv Kumar works as Commercial Tax Officer in Bihar. He quit his job as an engineer in the public sector company BHEL to work for his home state. He has travelled extensively throughout India during the course of his work. An alumnus of the prestigious Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, he is passionate about reading and writing and prefers subjects which provide an insight into issues concerning contemporary Indian social reality. Other genres he is fond of are travel writing, thrillers and crime fiction.
The story apart from solving the mystery around the events is just not suspense but a lot of self reflection as the characters are forced by ground reality to question obvious beliefs that one has and gaining perspective by being at the ground zero. This transformation in their thoughts influencing the course of their lives and the story then becomes the center stage with the reader also beginning to decide his/ her stance on the problem and attempting to solve the same. The amalgamation of b...