Anarchist Fiction dot Net

Looks like there’s a new book out in India, Madhav Mathur’s The Diary of an Unreasonable Man. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to be available in English just yet. But still looks interesting. A blurb about the book:

Pranav Kumar has had enough. He’s sick and tired of being a corporate drone convincing people that their lives are meaningless without the newest product he’s peddling. He hates that commercialism is the new mantra and people actually believe that you are what you own. Pranav Kumar wants to change the world.

But how does one man make a whole country question the way we are when no one is interested in listening?

Pranav and his friends decide to capture the eyeballs of the nation and shake up the system. Their methods are unorthodox, their message unique. They take over a TV station, expose an environmental scam, strike out at patrons of brothels, sabotage a glitzy fashion show, and paint-bomb a local train.

But as the Anarchists of Mumbai ignite sparks of a much larger movement, they realize that doing good comes at a price, that the means are as important as the ends and that being hunted by the Mumbai police is perhaps better than being hunted by contract-killers.

I’ll be curious to find out if the author actually has an understanding of anarchism, as he has said in an interview that “Karl Marx was an anarchist and people of the Greenpeace movement are anarchist because of their unique way of changing the system.” Ah well. Still looks promising.