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.
HarperCollins India | Rs 499 | 240 pages
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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The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R. is not a political novel. It’s a novel set in politics, but it’s about Ruby and no one else.
Cover page of The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R
It was at about page 243 of this 264-page book that I actually fell off my chair, I was laughing so hard. Laughing not at poor Ruby, the protagonist of Moni Mohsin’s novel
The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R., whose whole concept of her own existence had just been upended, but at myself.
Dog-Eared: The end of mirth
Dog-Eared: The end of mirth
BySupriya NairSupriya Nair / Updated: Dec 17, 2020, 06:00 IST
SUPRIYA-NAIR
The irrepressible writer Moni Mohsin is publishing a new novel to take the edge off this bitter year. Or so you tell yourself, until you crack open The Impeccable Integrity Of Ruby R. and realise that it’s a tragedy in the packaging of a comedy.
Ruby R. isn’t about the pandemic. It’s a story about the subcontinent’s other viral problem, populism. The titular Miss Ruby Rauf is a struggling university student in
London who attends a talk by trim, springy-haired actor-turnedpolitician Saif Haq. Saif wants to transform their home country, Pakistan. He wishes to cleanse politics; he wants to punish the corrupt; all he wants for himself and his millions of countrymen is justice.
The end of mirth
DOG-EARED
The irrepressible writer Moni Mohsin is publishing a new novel to take the edge off this bitter year. Or so you tell yourself, until you crack open The Impeccable Integrity Of Ruby R. and realise that it’s a tragedy in the packaging of a comedy.
Ruby R. isn’t about the pandemic. It’s a story about the subcontinent’s other viral problem, populism. The titular Miss Ruby Rauf is a struggling university student in
London who attends a talk by trim, springy-haired actor-turnedpolitician Saif Haq. Saif wants to transform their home country, Pakistan. He wishes to cleanse politics; he wants to punish the corrupt; all he wants for himself and his millions of countrymen is justice.