The Communal Angle
Sabin Iqbal’s debut novel stands poised on the brink of precarity at a time when the collapse of secular values haunts India. It is the story of Moosa and his friends Thaha, Usman and Jahangir, youths on. Poorly educated and lacking employment opportunities, their future, like their fellow villagers’, lies in menial jobs in the Gulf. They spend their time hanging around the beach chatting with tourists, trying to speak better English, arranging weed, changing dollars and hoping for a better life.
