The City Inside by Samit Basu

A sharp, genre-bending portrait of a near-future Indian megacity where surveillance technology, viral media and corporate power reshape everyday life; through interlocking perspectives from politicians and bureaucrats to activists and ordinary workers, the novel follows how propaganda, data-driven policing and economic precarity escalate tensions and ignite social unrest, offering a satirical, urgent critique of tech, politics and inequality.

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