Legal Fiction: A Novel | Chandan Pandey and Bharatbhooshan Tiwari | KharidobechoBooks

\x27Legal fiction\x27: A rule assuming as true something that is clearly false. Often\nused to get around the provisions of constitutions and legal codes.\nA late\-night phone call from his ex\-girlfriend Anasuya forces writer Arjun Kumar to\nleave his wife and home in Delhi and travel to the mofussil town of Noma on the\nUP\-Bihar border. The reason \- Anasuya\x27s husband, Rafique Neel, a college\nprofessor and theatre director, has mysteriously disappeared. Soon after he\narrives, Arjun realizes that things are not as they seem: the police are refusing to\nregister a missing\-persons case, Rafique\x27s student Janaki has also disappeared,\nand the locals are determined to turn it into a case of \x27love jihad\x27. And when Arjun\nbegins to dig deeper, what he finds endangers him and everyone around him.\nSet in today\x27s India, Legal Fiction is a brilliant existential thriller and a chilling\nparable of our times.