IN THE SUNDAY TIMES
Tarun Tejpal is a hormonally-fuelled writer obsessed with the act of creation in its widest sense, delighted to flout the “never write about sex” maxim that his character unwisely sets himself. Largely avoiding cliché or off-putting gynaecological detail, Tejpal beats an erotic path through the depths of human desire: sexual, artistic, political... a memorable and impressive debut, says Lucy Atkins

IN THE INDEPENDENT
As a fearless online sleuth, he shook the government. Now Tarun Tejpal, India's journalist hero, has turned from fact to fiction.
Priyanka Gill meets him

IN THE TRIBUNE
It’s rich sexuality lifts this work way, way above the ordinary. Rare is the Indian writer in English who has ventured thus far with the language, force, imagery and originality, says
Shastri Ramachandran

IN TEHELKA
Those two journalists, Marquez and Hemingway will be proud of their tribesman, Tarun J Tejpal, says Paul Zacharia

IN REDIFF
“Safe books bore me,” says Tarun J Tejpal discussing his book and the experience of writing in the thick of battle with Lindsay Pereira

IN INDIA TODAY
Tejpal has found his story with a panache seldom seen in first novels – in grand strokes. With its eroticism and excitement of ideas this book heralds an arrival, says S Prasannarajan