MULTI-FACETED INDIAN COSMOPOLITANISM IN VIKRAM CHANDRA’S SACRED GAMES

Sacred Games is a crime novel and detective story thriller. Sartaj Singh, a veteran and suspicious Bombay police officer, receives an anonymous call one morning. The voice echoed a promise for an opportunity to capture the powerfulyl and criminally overloaded gangster mafia of G-Company, Ganesh Gaitonde. There arises various tough circumstances those Chandra stresses in the novel which are vivid and natural. His exposition of drug circulation, gagster don system and sexual abuse is par excellent all through the novel. In accordance with these features Chandra depicted the plot as the novel displays an array and multiplicity of the modern Indian society in terms of nuclear terrorism, partition, glamour world, fake spiritual policies and the plights of widows as well. The article discusses the touch of these aspects from the novel. Keywords— Ganster, mafia, nuclear terrorism, partition, spirituality, glamour, Indian Society