Editor's Note: 'High Rises' is the first novel to be serialized on DDR. It will initially be published on a weekly schedule.
Chapter I
The Garden of Eden was scheduled to receive its first occupants in less than a week’s time....
Editor: Read Chapter VII here.
Rajesh woke up bright and early and called Anjali.
‘How do you feel today?’ he asked her.
‘I’ve decided to forgive you. It’s not really your fault. Let’s make the best of this week,’ she said. Rajesh...
Editor: Read Chapter XXXI here.
The morning after Ravi’s visit, Swapna packed a small suitcase as per Tarun’s directions and told everyone in the chawl that she was off to Chiplun to visit her maternal grandparents. When she got off...
Editor: Read Chapter XLII here.
The four policemen who raided Opesh’s bangle shop in Dadar did not believe in playing by the rules. For one, they came in an unmarked Tata Sumo. Instead of showing Opesh an arrest warrant, they...
Editor: Read Chapter XIV here.
When Rajesh received the DIG’s summons, he expected to be asked for his views on interrogating Etayya and how best the new prisoner could be used to win the war against Maoism in Gadhchiroli.
‘You...
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Rajesh, his mother, uncle and aunt landed outside Anjali’s doorstep at the appointed hour. As Rajesh rang the bell, his uncle said, ‘I would hate to live in a rabbit-hole like this. I wonder how...
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Tarun saw that Swapna had called him twice in the past hour and was thus forced to call her back.
‘Darling, how are you doing?’
‘I miss you. When will I see you again?’
‘Soon. I can’t leave...
Editor: Read Chapter X here.
On the morning of the big raid, the alarms went off at three thirty a.m. Four days had passed since they had blown up the Garden of Eden and the unnamed building in Kandivali East....
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Yaroslav was in a terrible mood ever since he heard that Indian security forces had killed a large group of men who had been on their way to attack another building. Sergei was yet to...
Editor: Read Chapter XXIII here.
The National Security Guards’s (NSG's) 51 Special Action Group specialized in counter terrorist operations and sixty of the one hundred strong NSG continent deployed in Mumbai were in position for the ambush on that December...
