A review by singh_reads_kanwar2
Leila by Prayaag Akbar

4.0

The story is based on future of our country under current scenario, where religion supremacy has reached its heights, We have water and air scarcity, Capitalism is at its highest and the people in power are those who are there for minister to be there back, contacts are everything and if you belong to another religion surely your small mistake will make you pay higher price which you don't want to put on stakes. In a digitized city, sometime in the near future, as an obsession with purity escalates, walls come up dividing and confining communities. Behind the walls high civic order prevails. In the forgotten spaces between, where garbage gathers and disease festers, Shalini must search for Leila, the daughter she lost one tragic summer sixteen years ago , her husband died and she was put behind walls of hate and puritans, rules and living is difficult for rich and prosperous ones. Skirting surveillance systems and thuggish Repeaters, Shalini—once wealthy, with perhaps a wayward past; now a misfit, pushed to the margins—is propelled only by her search. It's a story of longing, faith and most of all loss, Shalini got help from rebels who want to change there life. With its unflinching gaze on class, privilege and the choices that today confront us and its startling, almost prophetic vision of the world