![]() The fascination of the man from the Delhi underworld is that he represents everything Idha’s aunt prohibits, despises and fears. The secret is: it turns me on.« Idha has intense sexual experiences and takes drugs. Idha describes this partly disturbing and self-destructive relationship like this: »I’m beautiful, he’s ugly. When she meets a mysterious older man, whom she describes as a »wild animal in human clothing«, she discards all reservations and fears and starts an affair with him. The young woman – hungry for life, but unhappy, isolated and hemmed in by her aunt – longs to break the conventions of family and society and plunges into exciting, pulsating Delhi. 20-year-old college student Idha lives with her aunt in New Delhi her mother is dead, her father has moved to Singapore. Her first novel ✺ Bad Character« (2014) caused a stir and was short-listed for the prestigious Prix Médicis étranger. ![]() She worked as a journalist for various newspapers for 10 years. ![]() She started studying journalism at the University of New Delhi in 1997 and then obtained a master’s degree in psychology. Deepti Kapoor was born in 1980 in Moradabad, India and grew up in Mumbai, Bahrain and Dehradun. ![]()
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