Tanuj Solanki’s novel, Manjhi’s Mayhem, has been longlisted for the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature. Scroll spoke to Ram about the origins, themes, and writing of this novel. In this novel, Sewaram ...

In Tanuj Solanki’s latest novel Manjhi’s Mayhem (Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House), a Dalit person Sewaram Manjhi, who’s employed as a security guard with an elite café in Mumbai, ...

In The Machine Is Learning Solanki places his characters at the heart of the man-versus-machine debate. His protagonist Saransh Malik is tasked with a confidential project to automate the jobs of 552 ...

None of this happened in English. It couldn’t have. English is not the language in which life runs for most people in this country. It all happened in a mix of Hindi and Marathi and kisses and fucking ...

I was introduced to Tanuj Solanki’s fiction back in 2015 when I read his short story Muzaffarnagar Diwali in Caravan magazine. It was a raw account of Tarun, a young man returning to his home town, ...

A good story needs a captivating plot and thought-provoking characters woven together in engaging prose. A dose of social commentary lends it relatability. Manjhi’s Mayhem has all that and more. When ...

There are videos of Gaza and so one knows that there is, still, a Gaza. I must have seen thousands of them by now. In the early months, one saw mule carts carrying bodies—dead, alive, maimed, sizzled, ...

Manjhi’s Mayhem is most suited for a screen adaptation.(iStockphoto) Set in present day Mumbai, Tanuj Solanki’s Manjhi’s Mayhem is a crime novel, thriller and literary noir, all rolled into one.

Manjhi’s Mayhem is a noir thriller with the main character Sewaram Manjhi working as a security guard in a posh coffee shop in Mumbai. Though a dalit from Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, his Aadhaar shows his ...

In India, genre fiction in English has been dominated by foreign authors. Be it crime, romance, thrillers or horror, the bestselling names are typically American or British. In recent years, one genre ...