Tuesday, November 3, 2009

List of characters

Hey all, just thought it might be nifty to have a list of characters and a brief blurb of what it is they're doing in the novel. Luckily, wikipedia did my work for me. I don't claim any credit for this, but I'll certainly take it advantage of it. Hope it's mildly useful for everyone.

  • Mr. Nandha is a Krishna Cop whose job it is to excommunicate rogue aeais. Parvati is his wife trying to cope with boredom at home and high society class dynamics.
  • Vishram Ray is an aspiring stand-up comedian who finds himself controlling his father's energy giant Ray Power, after his sudden retirement into sanyas.
  • Tal is a beautiful nute working as a set designer for India's most ubiquitous tivi soapi - Town & Country, watched by millions.
  • Shaheen Badoor Khan is a powerful civil servant, and direct secretary to the Prime Minister Sajida Rana.
  • Shiv and Yogendra are small-time hoodlums caught up in the larger flow of events.
  • Najia Askarzadah is a Swedish-Afghan reporter who ambitiously jumps into the civil war brewing in the subcontinent.
  • Lisa Durnau is a physicist who has been sent to an asteroid by the US government, to see what's inside the alien artifact.
  • Thomas Lull is an AI genius living in exile in India, hiding away his past.
  • Ajmer Rao is a mystical girl who can see into people's futures, she's looking for her biological parents.

2 comments:

  1. I used this list a lot while I was reading. In the beginning I had trouble remembering who everybody was and what they did.

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  2. This was a total life saver. I read about the first 100 pages without looking a list of characters and it was much more difficult to understand what was happening because of the different side stories.

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