Ninety Hours of Desire (English, Paperback, R. SUNDAR)

Kamala, a transgender water-distributor from suburban Chennai, boards the Vande Bharat Express with a valid ticket and a quiet need for rest. Beside her sits CMD, a corporate titan under fire for glorifying the 90-hour work week. What begins as awkward silence unfolds into a charged, intimate reckoning of labour, dignity, and the cost of ambition. Ninety Hours of Desire is a collision of two Indias: one that builds, and one that sustains. It is a collision between cracked wells and glass boardrooms, between mockery and ovation, between the seen and the unseen. It reframes work ethic and work-life balance, dismantles corporate theatre and reveals how dignity and quiet rebellion can flourish in the margins of a hyper-structured, unequal society. Kamala, wearing only a lungi and pale-yellow T-shirt, an attire she wore with reluctance, which became her armour for five decades, speaks from the podium or a large corporate conference hall, “Difference and diversity aren’t the same. Difference lives in the mind. Diversity lives in nature. Where you see only difference, you find conflict. But when you see diversity, you celebrate. If you’ve seen our commonalities and our shared stretch marks, then let me say thank you for accepting me not just as different, but as human.” If you’ve ever felt alone, unseen, unheard, or uninvited, this story doesn’t just speak to you. It walks beside you. The book has been submitted for the “Best Indie Book Award” under the LGBTQ category.