Anushka Ravishankar
Penguin India, Rs 299
A mostly random enquiry into the nature of apocalypse, cartography, education, hairstyling, interdimensional travel, philosophy, physics, poetry, publishing, religion and toenails. Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Ogd, a Messiah was born … with her foot in her mouth. Her position of foetal gaffe allows her to eat her toenails, which nourish her and make her toenails grow so that she can eat them which is also is the basis of her profound teachings. As she travels through dimensions, her followers learn the importance of bells, nirvana, clean feet, Klein bottles and phonetics.