I’m excited to live in a world where a new Moni Mohsin book is out, alliteratively titled The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R. In it, Mohsin melds the humour of her Butterfly novels with the serious attention to social injustice and gender issues that distinguished her debut, The End of Innocence.
Not surprisingly, her nose for the zeitgeist has led Mohsin to select a topic of prime interest and importance. She scrutinises the backstabbing world of contemporary Pakistani politics. Here, Saif Haq is a celebrity-turned-politician now leading a party called Integrity. Attracting millennial voters in their droves, the party’s stated mission is to combat injustice, exploitation and corruption. Saif also claims to protect the honour of the nation’s mothers and daughters with reverence and religiosity.
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Moni Mohsin was born and raised in Lahore. Author of the best selling social satire, Diary of A Social Butterfly and Tender Hooks, she is currently based in London. She is married and has two children. LESS. MORE
I could tell who she was from her wicked giggles. No respectable woman laughs like that. As I walked further from my village on that dark moonless night, her peals of laughter rang out. She was following me. I was on a narrow, deserted path between two fields. She was close enough for me to hear her panting breath and the bells jingling on her broken, twisted ankles. She wanted me to turn around, to look at her crazed, bloodied face, her tangled hair. But I knew I mustn’t. She would have me then. My heart was hammering, but I forced myself to walk on, to not show fear. All the while, I was reciting the Quran under my breath, begging Allah to protect me from evil.
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New Delhi, Jan 19 : While watching Harvey Weinsteins story on television, who was convicted of multiple sex offenses, she began to imagine how the people of the subcontinent would react if such a news broke out centering around a person from this part of the world. Bill Clintons affair with Monica Lewinsky also came to her mind. And that is how Pakistani writer Moni Mohsins latest book The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R, recently published by Penguin Random House was conceived.
Moni Mohsin on how her new book explores Pakistan s volatile politics through social media s lenses The author, known for using satire to slice open the discrepancies in society, uses the protagonist in her new book The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R and her hero worship of an aspiring prime minister to expose the ugly underbelly of social media. Mallik Thatipalli January 03, 2021 09:33:44 IST Author Moni Mohsin
A hero with clay feet, an army of trolls and a nation to win over
The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R is a novel whose time has arrived. Though the story unravels in Pakistan, it could easily be India or any other country, for that matter, in which politicians use social media as a toxic tool to intimidate and bully those who disagree.
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Award-winning translator Narayan Hegde translates literary giant UR Ananthamurthy’s novel, first published in 1978, from the Kannada. It’s a country struggling with corruption, whose prime minister is on the way to becoming a ruthless dictator. From his sickbed, revolutionary leader Krishnappa Gowda tackles the schemes of party men, grapples with his conscience, and through a memory that comes and goes, looks for the true meaning of life.
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Out of Print founder Indira Chandrasekhar, who set up the literary magazine in 2010 to focus on short stories, brings together select pieces from the publication’s first decade. They reinforce ideas that speak to the spirit of the magazine, including diversity of literary voices, open-mindedness about experimentation, and focus on Indian-language publishing. Above