Dvarca by Madhav Mathur
Book Review - Dvarca by Madhav Mathur Imagine a country having one race, one language, and one religion where the state intrudes into personal life of citizen. State decides pregnancy and traits of progeny to be born, distributes quota and type of food for individual, decides profession of people and promotes one language and one religion. The control is such draconian that the thought process is manipulated and conditioned. “Multi-culturism is dead” is boastfully declared. It is futuristic imaginary country depicted by Madhav Mathur in his new novel ‘Dvarca’. Madhav Mathur a Sigapore based writer, works for an MNC. Dvarca is the second novel by this writer-filmmaker. His first novel is ‘ The diary of an unreasonable man’ . His award winning films ‘ The Insomniac’ and ‘The Outsiders’ have been screened at numerous festivals. At a time when the ultranationalists and right wing forces are coming to centre stage across the globe, Dvarca is well-timed. The b