Shikari: The Hunt

The hunters' pack is swelling. They're whooping. The hounds are baying for my blood. The drumbeats are growing unbearably loud. They're circling me. They're closing in on me . . .'. Yashwant Chittal's acclaimed novel Shikari set in the concrete jungles of Bombay weaves together the high-stakes conspiracies of the corporate world and the parochial intrigues of a close-knit community.Nagappa a senior manager at an MNC is framed for a crime he has not committed. As the story unfolds it reveals a fiercely competitive arena where Man's primordial instincts surface and the line between the hunter and the hunted is often blurred.Shikari is a monumental work in which Chittal as far back as 1979 exposed the underbelly of the corporate world.