INSIDE BURN Paperback

Inside Burn by Sanjay Bahadur is a gripping novel that plunges readers into the heart of a spontaneous riot in a city in northern India. It portrays an ordinary morning at a bustling intersection, where diverse lives—a young boy selling books, a sister offering flowers, an ice-cream vendor, celebrating students, and mechanics preparing for prayer—are suddenly and violently engulfed in a storm of vengeance and retribution. The narrative intensely explores the anatomy of such an eruption, laying bare the hate and violence that can turn individuals into a faceless mob, while also subtly celebrating the enduring core of the human spirit amidst chaos and intolerance.