Gooday Nagar

Inhabiting the weirdly wonderful world of Gooday Nagar are disillusioned playwrights and their trysts with soan papdi, vacuum-cleaner salesmen, armless ghosts and erstwhile revolutionaries with a fear of gobhi manchurian.
In this city that could be any and every city in India, lives have been disrupted by the Covid pandemic but put back together by thieving monkeys. People wake up in a post-apocalyptic world only to discover everything is made of cake, medieval English castles hide unlikely stories of murder and magic, and heaven-made marriages are unmade on earth.
Story after story in Karnoor’s surreal, spellbinding collection unearths the ironies of modern life and rewrites its philosophy with humour, in language that serves as both the medium and the message.