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Vinod Bhardwaj's novel Seppuku was an expose of the contemporary Indian art world. A True Lie - a sequel of sorts to that novel - takes on the world of Indian journalism. On the one hand, it is the story of print journalism regressing from its Golden Age. It bears witness to the swift changes in old-world journalism in the age of colour TV, as brand managers become editors. On the other hand, there is the novel's protagonist, Sudhir Chandra, who battles unsuccessfully with the memories and scares of childhood sexual abuse, and tries to navigate unsuccessfully through a maze of complex relationships with women. Like Schopenhauer, he feels that sometimes revenge can be sweet, only to realize at the end, the futility of such vengeance. This is a boundary-breaking novel from a seasoned journalist, and will appeal to a wide cross-section of readers.

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Vinod Bhardwaj is an art and film critic and writer. Hehas published two collections of poetry (Jalta Makanand Hoshiarpur), one short-story collection (Chiteri), and more than ten books on art and cinema. He has alsocompiled and published an acclaimed encyclopaedia ofmodern art in Hindi. This is his first novel in a trilogy. Thesecond novel, Sachcha Jhooth (Truthful Lies) has alreadybeen published earlier this year.Brij Sharma has worked with The Times of India and KhaleejTimes of Dubai and has been Editor of The Indian Expressin Gujarat. He has also translated into English VinodBhardwaj's Hindi monographs on artist Paramjit Singh andsculptor Ramesh Bisht and translated and contributed to theDhoomimal Art Gallery book on F. N. Souza edited by him.

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